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כַּרְמִי

Carmites

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Carmites’ fuller range ↓

H3757 Strong's Hebrew
Karmîy Transliteration
/kar-mee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

כרמי (Karmîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Carmites.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Numbers dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Found nowhere else but Numbers 26:6. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Carmites
Modern gloss
Carmites
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H3757 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Numbers 26:6
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Numbers 26:6.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 1 · 100%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.

  • King James Version: Carmites 1×
  • American Standard Version: Carmites 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Carmi 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Karmite 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H3757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Carmites” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H3757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Carmites” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H3757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Carmi” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H3757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Karmite” 1×

Senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

כרמי I

  • 1. a son of Reuben Gn 46:9 Ex 6:14 Nu 26:6 1 Ch 5:3. e.g. Genesis 46:9
  • 2. a Judaite Jos 7:1, 18 1 Ch 2:7; so 4:1, but read perhaps כְּלֻבַי We (cf. 2:9)—𝔊 throughout χαρμ(ε)ι. e.g. Joshua 7:1

כרמי II of i. כַּרְמִי 1

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

adj.gent. of i. כַּרְמִי 1; only c. art. הַכּ׳, as subst. Nu 26:6.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from כרמי (Karmîy) (H3756) — Carmi.

Part of speech: Adjective


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

כְּרָם

  • Targ. Ex. XXII, 4; a. fr.—B. Mets. 104ᵃ; B. Bath. 7ᵃ if one says (כרם) כרמא אני מוכר לך וכ׳ ‘I sell thee a vineyard’, although there are no vines in it &c.; והוא דמתקרי כ׳ provided the property goes by the name of vineyard (Karma); a. fr.—Yeb. 42ᵇ ממתניתן דכ׳ וכ׳ he changed his opinion on account of what had been taught in the college (at Jamnia), v. preced.—[Yeb. 121ᵃ בכרמא, v. כַּרְמִי.]—Pl. כַּרְמִין, כַּרְמַיָּא, כַּרְמֵי. Targ. Deut. VI, 11. Targ. Jud. XV, 5. Targ. Koh. II, 4 כ׳ ביבנה schools, (v. preced.); a. fr.—Y. Kil. IV, beg. 29ᵃ, v. next w.—Succ. 44ᵇ, v. קַשְׁקֵשׁ.

כַּרְמִי

  • Carmi in Babylonia. Yeb. 121ᵃ דאטבע בכ׳ וכ׳ (Ar. בכרמא) a man that was drowned at C. and whose body was found &c.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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