Lexical Definition

‎כַּרְמִי‎ Karmîy (kar-mee') Carmite ^N:N--PG
patronymically from ‎כַּרְמִי‎

Carmites.

• § Carmites = see Carmi "my vineyard"
• a Karmite or descendant of Karmi

1) the descendants of Carmi, the 4th son of Reuben

Extended Information

group of: כַּרְמִי

• Someone descended from Carmi who was a man of the tribe of Reuben living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.9
• son of: Reuben (רְאוּבֵן)
• brother of: Pallu (פַּלּוּא), Hezron (חֶצְרוֹן) and Hanoch (חֲנוֹךְ)
• Group of kar.mi (‎כ‎ַּ‎ר‎ְ‎מ‎ִ‎י‎ "Carmi" כַּרְמִי)
• the Carmites descended from the 4th son of Reuben

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎כַּרְמִי‎ adjective, of a people of I. ‎כַּרְמִי‎ 1; only with article ‎׳‎‎הַכּ‎, as substantive Num 26:6.

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