Plantation
כַּרְמֶלStrong’s H3759karmel (kar-mel)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Karmel is the Hebrew word usually translated “new corn”, “orchard” and “plantation its”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.”
Meaning
- Plantation, garden-land, orchard, fruit orchard
- Fruit, garden-growth (meton)
How it's translated
- and new corn 2
- the orchard 2
- and the orchard 2
- new corn 1
- plantation its 1
- and in the orchards 1
- and orchard his 1
- into orchard 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 6
- Jeremiah 3
- Leviticus 2
- 2 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Micah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 23:14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- 2 Kings 4:42And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
- 2 Kings 19:23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
- Isaiah 10:18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
- Isaiah 16:10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּרְמֶל karmel · plantation
1) plantation, garden-land, orchard, fruit orchard 2) fruit, garden-growth (meton)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plantation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLANTA'TION, noun
[Latin plantatio, from planto, to plant.]
- The act of planting or setting in the earth for growth.
- The place planted; applied to ground planted with trees, as an orchard or the like.
- In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm.
- An original settlement in a new country; a town or village planted.
All definitions and other forms of “plantation”
- A colony.
- A first planting; introduction; establishment; as the plantation of christianity in England.
PLANT'-CANE, noun
In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.