karmel · fresh grain, fruitful field

What it means

karmel (כַּרְמֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fresh grain, fruitful field”.

Fresh, tender grain, just harvested. In other passages the same word means "garden, fruitful field" (hence the name of Mount Carmel).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A grove of trees bearing produce, rich soil.
2. Tender ears of new grain, still green, before the full harvest.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• orchard ×10
• fresh grain ×2
• fruitful land ×1
• new grain ×1
• orchards ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• 2 Kings×2
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×3

• Leviticus 2:14

  If you present a grain offering of first-ripe fruits to YHWH, you shall present as the grain offering of your first-ripe fruits fresh ears roasted in the fire, crushed new grain.

• Leviticus 23:14

  And bread or roasted grain or fresh grain you shall not eat until this very day, until you have brought the offering of your Elohim; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• 2 Kings 4:42

  A man came from Baal-shalishah and brought the man of Elohim bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh grain in his sack. He said, “Give it to the people, and let them eat.”

• 2 Kings 19:23

  Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

• Isaiah 10:18

  And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful land he will consume, from soul even to flesh; and it will be like the wasting away of a sick man.

• Isaiah 16:10

  And joy and gladness are gathered away from the orchard, and in the vineyards there is no singing, no shouting; the treader does not tread out wine in the presses; the shout I have made cease.

• Isaiah 29:17

  Is it not yet a little, a very little, and Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be regarded as a forest?

• Isaiah 32:15

  until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes an orchard, and the orchard is regarded as a forest.

• Isaiah 32:16

  And justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will abide in the orchard.

• Isaiah 37:24

  Through your servants you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter the height of its farthest end, the forest of its orchard.

• Jeremiah 2:7

  And I brought you into a land of orchards to eat its fruit and its good things; but you came in and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made an abomination.

• Jeremiah 4:26

  I looked, and look, the orchard land was the wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before YHWH, before his burning anger.

• Jeremiah 48:33

  And joy and gladness are gathered away from the orchard and from the land of Moab; and wine from the presses I have made cease; no one treads with the shout; the shout is no shout.

And 2 more times.