Carchemish
כַּרְכְּמִישׁStrong’s H3751karkemish (kar-ke-mish)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Karkemish is the Hebrew word usually translated “at carchemish” and “like carchemish”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.”
Meaning
- § Carchemish = "fortress of Chemosh"
How it's translated
- at carchemish 2
- like carchemish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 10:9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- Jeremiah 46:2Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּרְכְּמִישׁ karkemish · Carchemish
§ Carchemish = "fortress of Chemosh" a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.