Lexical Definition

‎כַּרְמֶל‎ Karmel (kar-mel') Carmel ^N:N--L
the same as ‎כַּרְמֶל‎

Carmel, fruitful (plentiful) field, (place).

• § Carmel = "garden-land"
• Karmel, the name of a hill and of a town in Palestine

1) a mountain on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel, just below Haifa
2) a town in the mountains on the west side of the Dead Sea and south of Hebron

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎כַּרְמֶל‎ proper name, of a mountain and city Carmel: —

1. mountain-promontory on Mediterranean, with fertile slopes, Tel el-Amarna (Ginti-) Kirmil, Jastr^{JBL xi. 1892, 115}; Josh 19:26, ‎׳‎‎הַרהַֿכּ‎ 1Kgs 18:19; 1Kgs 18:20; 2Kgs 2:25; 2Kgs 4:25 ‎׳‎‎ראֹשׁ הַכּ‎ Amos 1:2; Amos 9:3; 1Kgs 18:42 with article also Josh 12:22 and, + ‎בָּשָׁן‎, Jer 50:19, as pasturage (in figurative of Israel as flock of ‎׳‎‎י‎), compare (‎׳‎‎כ‎ without article) Mic 7:14 (less probably rend. garden-land, I. ‎כַּרְמִל‎, so We GASm); ‎׳‎‎הַכּ‎ Isa 35:2 ( + ‎הַלְּבָּנוֺן‎ ‎הַשָּׁרוֺן‎) ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Isa 33:9 (+ ‎לְבָנוֺן‎ ‎הַשָּׁרוֺן‎ and ‎בָּשָׁן‎, marking extent of land), Nah 1:4 (+ ‎לְבָנוֺן‎ ‎בָּשָׁן‎); ‎כְּכַרְמֶל בַּיָּם‎ Jer 46:18 (simile of Nebuchadnezzar); Song 7:6* ‎׳‎‎ראֹשֵׁךְ עָלַיִךְ כַּכּ‎ (but see ‎כַּרְמִיל‎); — on Carmel see GASm^{G. 337 ff.} Buhl^{G. 23.}

2. city, 3 h. south of Hebron, ‎כַּרְמֶל‎ Josh 15:55 ‎׳‎‎בַּכּ‎ 1Sam 25:2 (twice in verse); 1Sam 25:7 ‎כַּרְמֶ֫לָה‎ v1Sam 25:5 (= to Carmel); ‎הַכַּרְמֶ֫לָה‎ 1Sam 15:12; 1Sam 25:40. — Modern Kurmul, Rob ^{BR i. 492-498, ii. 97} Buhl^{G. 163}.

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