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HebrewH3751Noun

כַּרְכְּמִישׁ

kar.ke.mish

3Occurrences
H3751Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Karkemish, a place in Syria

of foreign derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Carchemish = "fortress of Chemosh" a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

כַּרְכְּמִישׁ appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
1
Isaiah
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 35:20BSB

After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.

Isaiah 10:9BSB

“Is not Calno like Carchemish?Is not Hamath like Arpad?Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Jeremiah 46:2BSB

concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.