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# כַּרְמֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3759

**plantation** — used 14 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

plantation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3759/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּרְמֶל: n.m. plantation, garden-land. fruit, garden-growth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3759/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 29:17 1. plantation, garden-land. 2. fruit, garden-growth (ל + כֶּרֶם, cf. Ges§ 85, 52 Sta§ 299);—abs. כ׳ Is 16:10 + 12 times; sf. כַּרְמִלּוֹ Is 10:18 + 2 times;— garden-land, Is 16:10 (‖ כְּרָמִים), 10:18 (‖ יַעַר), 29:17(×2) (opp. לְבָנוֹן, יַעַר), 32:15(×2) (opp. מִדְבָּר, יַעַר), v 16 Je 4:26 (opp. מִדְבָּר), 48:33 2 Ch 26:10 (opp. הֶהָרִים); אֶרֶץ הַכּ׳ Je 2:7 the country of garden-land, i.e. fertile; יַעַר כַּרְמִלּוֹ 2 K 19:23 = Is 37:24, the garden-like forest of it (viz. of Lebanon). On Mi 7:14 v. ii. כַּרְמֶל. by meton. (fresh) fruit, garden-growth, 2 K 4:42 (+ לֶחֶם שְׂעוֹרִים); Lv 2:14 (+ אָבִיב קָלוּי בָּאֵשׁ, and גֶּרֶשׂ, q.v.), לֶחֶם וְקָלִי וכי Lv 23:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 3 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: orchard (7); its plantation (2); orchard\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.16/#tree)

וְשָׁכַ֥ן בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּצְדָקָ֖ה בַּכַּרְמֶ֥ל תֵּשֵֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.dwell in the wilderness justice and righteousness in the orchard it.will.remain

*JPS 1917:* Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

[Isaiah 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.18/#tree)

וּכְב֤וֹד יַעְרוֹ֙ וְכַרְמִלּ֔וֹ מִנֶּ֥פֶשׁ וְעַד־בָּשָׂ֖ר יְכַלֶּ֑ה וְהָיָ֖ה כִּמְסֹ֥ס נֹסֵֽס׃

*Word for word:* and the.splendor his.forest his and orchard his from breath and unto flesh it.will.bring.to.an.end and it.will.be as wastes.away \[one.who.is\].sick

*JPS 1917:* And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, he will consume both soul and body; and it shall be as when a sick man wasteth away.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3759/): 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).