Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H3751
כַּרְכְּמִישׁ
kar.ke.mish · “Carchemish”
Used 3 times across 3 books
Definition
§ Carchemish = "fortress of Chemosh"
a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar
Where it appears
2 Chronicles1
Isaiah1
Jeremiah1
In the text
2 Chronicles 35:20After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.Isaiah 10:9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?Jeremiah 46:2Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh–necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
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