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# כַּרְמְלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3761

**the Carmelite** — used 7 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

the Carmelite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3761/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּרְמְלִי: adj.gent. the Carmelite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3761/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent., c. art., the Carmelite, of Nabal הַכּ׳ 1 S 30:5; 2 S 2:2; 3:3, so also 1 S 27:3 (𝔊 We Klo Dr Bu Kit; MT הַכַּרְמְלִית, of Abigail); of חצרו 2 S 23:35 = 1 Ch 11:37. f. הַכַּרְמְלִית the Carmelitess, 1 Ch 3:1, of Abigail.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Carmelite (5); \[woman\] (2).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.35/#tree)

חֶצְרַי֙ הַֽכַּרְמְלִ֔י פַּעֲרַ֖י הָאַרְבִּֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Hezrai the Carmelite Paarai the Arbite

*JPS 1917:* Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite;

[1 Chronicles 11:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.37/#tree)

חֶצְרוֹ֙ הַֽכַּרְמְלִ֔י נַעֲרַ֖י בֶּן־אֶזְבָּֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Hezro the Carmelite Naarai the.son of.Ezbai

*JPS 1917:* Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3761.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3761/): 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).