karmel · Carmel

What it means

karmel (כַּרְמֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Carmel”.

A mountain by the sea, in the north; also a town of Judah. The name means "garden, fertile field."

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.

The place

• Carmel

  Today: Mount Carmel, near Haifa, Israel

  A mountain ridge near the Mediterranean coast in northern Israel, by present-day Haifa.

  Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal there, and fire from the Lord fell (1 Kgs 18:19-38).

  1 Kings 18:191 Kings 18:422 Kings 4:25

How it is translated

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

• Carmel ×22
• fertile field ×1
• fertile fields ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×3
• 1 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Amos×2
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1

• Joshua 12:22

  the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

• Joshua 15:55

  Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

• Joshua 19:26

  Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal; and on the west it touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath;

• 1 Samuel 15:12

  Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told to Samuel, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and look, he is setting up for himself a monument; and he turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 25:2

  There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; the man was very rich and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 25:5

  David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, go to Nabal, and ask him in my name about his welfare.

• 1 Samuel 25:7

  Now I have heard that you have shearers. Now, the shepherds who are yours were with us; we did not wrong them, and nothing of theirs went missing all the days they were in Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 25:40

  David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel and spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you to himself as wife.”

• 1 Kings 18:19

  Now then, send, gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

• 1 Kings 18:20

  So Ahab sent word among all the sons of Israel and gathered the prophets at Mount Carmel.

• 1 Kings 18:42

  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.

• 2 Kings 2:25

  He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

• 2 Kings 4:25

  She went and came to the man of Elohim at Mount Carmel. And it happened, when the man of Elohim saw her from a distance, that he said to Gehazi, his young man, “Look, that Shunammite.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fertile fields, for he loved the ground.

• Song of Songs 7:5

  Your head upon you is like Carmel, and the tresses of your head like purple; a king is held captive in the locks.

• Isaiah 33:9

  The land mourns, languishes; Lebanon is abashed, it withers; Sharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

• Isaiah 35:2

  It will surely blossom and rejoice, yes, with rejoicing and shouting for joy; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of YHWH, the majesty of our Elohim.

• Jeremiah 46:18

  As I live, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name: surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, he will come.

• Jeremiah 50:19

  And I will bring back Israel to his fold, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and on the mountain of Ephraim and Gilead his soul will be satisfied.

• Amos 1:2

  And he said, “YHWH roars from Zion, and from Jerusalem utters his voice; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel dries up.”

• Amos 9:3

  And if they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and if they conceal themselves from my sight on the floor of the sea, from there I will command the snake, and it will bite them.

• Micah 7:14

  Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock of your inheritance, which dwells alone, in the forest in the midst of a fertile field; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of long ago.

• Nahum 1:4

  He rebukes the sea and dries it up, and all the rivers he drains; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the bloom of Lebanon withers.

And 1 more times.