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# כַּרְכְּמִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3751

**Carchemish** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Carchemish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3751/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּרְכְּמִישׁ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3751/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc., city on Euphrates (Assyrian Kargamis, Gargamis, cf. DlPar 265 ff.; Egyptian Ḳa-rï-ḳa-mḁï(?)-šḁ WMM Asien u. Europa 263; etym. dub.; according to Hoffm Auszüge Act. Pers. Märt. 163 RSProph. i. n. 5 = ‘Castle of Mish,’ cf. Dl l.c.);—כַּרְכְּמִישׁ Is 10:9 2 Ch 35:20 (𝔊L Χαρχαμεις), כַּרְכְּמִשׁ Je 46:2 (𝔊 Χαρμεις, Καρχαμεις). Hittite capital, E. bank of Euphr., mod. Jerabîs, or Jerbâs; Schr KGF 221 ff.; COT, on Is 10, 9 Dl l.c.; Jen ZA vii. (1892), 365 thinks he reads G(K)ar-g(k)a-mi-si(e)-ras = ‘king of Karkemish’ on (‘Hittite’) inscr. from Karkemish.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Carchemish (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.9/#tree)

הֲלֹ֥א כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנ֑וֹ אִם־לֹ֤א כְאַרְפַּד֙ חֲמָ֔ת אִם־לֹ֥א כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* ? not like Carchemish \[is\].Calneh or? not like Arpad \[is\].Hamath or? not like Damascus \[is\].Samaria

*JPS 1917:* Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

[2 Chronicles 35:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.20/#tree)

אַחֲרֵ֣י כָל־זֹ֗את אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵכִ֤ין יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַבַּ֔יִת עָלָ֞ה נְכ֧וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֛יִם לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ עַל־פְּרָ֑ת וַיֵּצֵ֥א לִקְרָאת֖וֹ יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* after all this when he.had.prepared Josiah (et) the house he.went.up Necho the.king of.Egypt to do.battle at Carchemish on \[the\].Euphrates and he.went.out to meet him Josiah

*JPS 1917:* After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3751.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3751/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).