כַּרְמֶלKarmel

proper name [of a mountain and city]: Carmel

Pronunciation: kar-mel' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3760

Meanings

1. mountain-promontory on Mediterranean, with fertile slopes (Joshua 19:26; 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 18:20)

2. city, south of Hebron (Joshua 15:55; 1 Samuel 25:2; 1 Samuel 25:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 12:22 The king of Kedesh The king of Jokneam in Carmel
  • Joshua 15:55 Besides these, there were Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
  • Joshua 19:26 Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The boundary on the west touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
  • 1 Samuel 15:12 Early the next morning Samuel went to find Saul. Someone told him, “Saul went to the town of Carmel to set up a monument to himself; then he went on to Gilgal.”
  • 1 Samuel 25:2 There was a wealthy man from Maon who owned property near the town of Carmel. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats, and it was sheep-shearing time.
  • 1 Samuel 25:5 he sent ten of his young men to Carmel with this message for Nabal:
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).