Lexical Summary Karkemish: a city on the Euphrates Original Word: כַּרְכְּמְישׂTransliteration: Karkemish Phonetic Spelling: (kar-kem-eesh') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a city on the Euphrates Meaning: Carchemish -- a city on the Euphrates Strong's Concordance Carchemish Of foreign derivation; Karkemish, a place in Syria -- Carchemish. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3751. Karkemish כַּרְכְּמִשׁ כַּרְכְּמִישׁ 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; 2 Chronicles 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. |
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