כַּרְמֶל
Karmel · kar-mel'
Karmel, the name of a hill and of a town in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H3759 (כַּרְמֶל);
Karmel, the name of a hill and of a town in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Carmel, fruitful (plentiful) field, (place).
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep › authority, the one who leads
The open hand that covers of the head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כַּרְמֶל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of carmel6 · 23%
- carmel5 · 19%
- to carmel4 · 15%
- of his carmel2 · 8%
- and carmel2 · 8%
- were in carmel1 · 4%
- in carmel1 · 4%
- they were in carmel1 · 4%
- and in carmel1 · 4%
- upon thee is like carmel1 · 4%
- and as carmel1 · 4%
- on carmel1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.