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(Mount) Carmel

כַּרְמֶלStrong’s H3760

karmel (kar-mel)

Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Karmel is the Hebrew word usually translated “carmel”, “carmel towards” and “like carmel”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.

“The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;”
Joshua 12:22 KJV
Meaning
  1. § Carmel = "garden-land"
  2. § Carmel = "garden-land"
How it's translated
  • carmel 11
  • carmel towards 3
  • in carmel 3
  • and carmel 2
  • of carmel 1
  • like carmel 1
  • and like carmel 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 5
  • Joshua 3
  • 1 Kings 3
  • 2 Kings 2
  • Isaiah 2
  • Jeremiah 2

9 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

כַּרְמֶל karmel · Carmel

§ Carmel = "garden-land" a town in the mountains on the west side of the Dead Sea and south of Hebron

כַּרְמֶל karmel · (Mount) Carmel

§ Carmel = "garden-land" a mountain on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel, just below Haifa

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.