Karkᵉmîysh — H3751

Definition

locative proper noun

Karkemish, a place in Syria

1. Carchemish = "fortress of Chemosh"
2. a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar

Usually translated as

Carchemish

Origin

of foreign derivation

Occurrences

Karkᵉmîysh occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Chronicles (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1)

• 2 Chronicles 35:20 — After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish (בְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ) by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
• Isaiah 10:9 — Is not Calno as Carchemish (כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ)? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
• Jeremiah 46:2 — Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish (בְּכַרְכְּמִ֑שׁ), which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.