Strong H3760H3760Gכַּרְמֶל
Carmel
One of the 2 senses of Strong H3760
- Transliteration
- karmel
- Pronunciation
- kar-mel'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Carmel was a town in Judah, known as the home of Nabal and his wife Abigail, who later married David.
Meaning of the name
Carmel = "garden-land"
General definition
The same as H3759; {Karmel} the name of a hill and of a town in Palestine: - {Carmel} fruitful (plentiful) {field} (place).
In the biblical story
Carmel
Town in Judah; home of Nabal and Abigail
Carmel was a town in Judah, known as the home of Nabal and his wife Abigail, who later married David.
In the Bible
Strong H3760G appears in 16 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- carmel16
First verses
- Joshua 12:22The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
- Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
- Joshua 19:26And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor–libnath;
- 1 Samuel 15:12And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 25:2And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:5And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
- 1 Samuel 25:7And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:40And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
- Song of Songs 7:5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
- Isaiah 33:9The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
- Isaiah 35:2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
- Jeremiah 46:18As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- Jeremiah 50:19And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
- Amos 1:2And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
- Amos 9:3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
- Nahum 1:4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.