Strong's Hebrew #3751 - כַּרְכְּמְישׂ Karkemish (a city on the Euphrates)
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 כַּרְכְּמִישׁ כַּרְכְּמִשׁ proper name, of a location, city on Euphrates (Assyrian kargamis, Gargamis, compare DlPar 265 ff.; Egyptian †a-rï-‡a-maï(?)-ša WMMAsien U. Europa 263; etymology dubious; according to HoffmAuszuge act. Pers. Mart. 163 RSProh. i. n. 5 = 'Castle of Mish,' compare Dll.c.); — כַּרְכְּמִישׁ Isaiah 10:9; 2Chronicles 35:20 (ᵐ5L Ξαρχαμεις), כַּרְכְּמִשׁ Jeremiah 46:2 (ᵐ5 Ξαρμεις Καρχαμεις). Hittite capital, East bank of Euphrates, Modern Jerabîs, or Jerbâs; SchrKGF 221 ff.; COT, on Isaiah 10:9 Dll.c.., JenZA 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 Occurrences2 Chronicles 35:20 Isaiah 10:9 Jeremiah 46:2 |