Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3751 - כַּרְכְּמְישׂ Karkemish (a city on the Euphrates)

Original Word:	כַּרְכְּמְישׂ
Transliteration:	Karkemish
Definition:	a city on the Euphrates
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(kar-kem-eesh')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Carchemish

Of foreign derivation; Karkemish, a place in Syria -- Carchemish.

Englishman's Concordance

Carchemish=“fortress of Chemosh”
1) a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of foreign derivation

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כַּרְכְּמִישׁכַּרְכְּמִשׁproper name, of a location, city on Euphrates (Assyrian kargamis, Gargamis, compare Dl^{Par 265 ff.}; Egyptian †a-rï-‡a-maï(?)-ša WMM^{Asien U. Europa 263}; etymology dubious; according to Hoffm^{Auszuge act. Pers. Mart. 163} RS^{Proh. i. n. 5}='Castle of Mish,' compare Dl^l.c.); — כַּרְכְּמִישׁIsaiah 10:9; 2Chronicles 35:20 (ᵐ5^LΞαρχαμεις), כַּרְכְּמִשׁJeremiah 46:2 (ᵐ5ΞαρμειςΚαρχαμεις). Hittite capital, East bank of Euphrates, Modern Jerabîs, or Jerbâs; Schr^{KGF 221 ff.}; COT, on Isaiah 10:9 Dl^l.c.., Jen^{ZA vii. (1892), 365} thinks he reads G(K)ar-g(k)a-mi-si(e)-ras='king of Karkemish' on ('Hittite') inscription from Karkemish.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3751. כַּרְכְּמִישׁ (Karkemish) — 3 Occurrences

2 Chronicles 35:20
HEB:מִצְרַ֛יִם לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ עַל־ פְּרָ֑ת
NAS: up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates,
KJV: to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates:
INT: of Egypt to make Carchemish on the Euphrates

Isaiah 10:9
HEB: הֲלֹ֥א כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנ֑וֹ אִם־
NAS: Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or
KJV: [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath
INT: like Carchemish Calno Or

Jeremiah 46:2
HEB:נְהַר־ פְּרָ֖ת בְּכַרְכְּמִ֑שׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִכָּ֗ה
NAS: River at Carchemish, which
KJV: Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar
INT: River the Euphrates Carchemish which defeated

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