H3751 H3751
Carchemish, major Hittite city on the Euphrates River
An important ancient city on the western bank of the Euphrates, serving as capital of a Hittite kingdom and later a significant Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian center. Its mention in Isaiah represents the relentless advance of Assyrian conquest. Most famously, Pharaoh Neco II marched to Carchemish in 609 BC, where King Josiah fatally intercepted him at Megiddo. Later, in 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar's decisive victory over Egypt at Carchemish shifted Near Eastern power to Babylon.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Isaiah 10:9 lists Carchemish among conquered cities in Assyria's boast: 'Is not Calno like Carchemish?' Second Chronicles 35:20 records Josiah's ill-fated confrontation with Neco 'at Carchemish by the Euphrates' (בְּכַרְכְּמִישׁ עַל־פְּרָת). Jeremiah 46:2 dates Nebuchadnezzar's crushing victory 'at Carchemish on the Euphrates,' a turning point that ended Egyptian dominance. The city's Assyrian name Kargamis appears in cuneiform records; its ruins lie at modern Jarabis on the Turkish-Syrian border. Translations transliterate: Spanish Carquemis. 3×
AR["فِي-كَرْكَمِيشَ", "كَـ-كَرْكَمِيشَ"]·ben["কর্কমীশে", "কর্কমীশের-মতো", "কর্কেমিশে"]·DE["[בכרכמיש]", "[בכרכמש]", "[ככרכמיש]"]·EN["as-Carchemish", "at-Carchemish", "at-Karkemish"]·FR["[בכרכמיש]", "[בכרכמש]", "[ככרכמיש]"]·heb["ב-כרכמיש", "כ-כרכמיש"]·HI["कर्कमीश-में", "जैसे-कर्केमीश", "में-कर्कमीश"]·ID["di-Karkemis", "seperti-Karkemis"]·IT["[בכרכמיש]", "[בכרכמש]", "[ככרכמיש]"]·jav["ing-Karkemis", "ing-Karkémis", "kados-Karkemis"]·KO["가르게미시에서", "갈르게미시-같이", "에-갈거미스"]·PT["como-Karkemish", "em-Carquemis", "em-Karkemish"]·RU["в-Каркемише", "как-Каркемиш"]·ES["como-Karkemish", "en-Carquemis", "en-Karkemish"]·SW["Karkemishi", "bּkarkּmiysh", "kama-Karkemishi"]·TR["-de-Karkamiş'ta", "Karkemish-gibi", "Karkemiş'te"]·urd["جیسے-کرکمیش", "کرکمیش-میں", "کرکمیش-پر"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† כַּרְכְּמִישׁ, כַּרְכְּמִשׁ n.pr.loc., city on Euphrates (Assyrian Kargamis, Gargamis, cf. DlPar 265 ff.; Egyptian Ḳa-rï-ḳa-mḁï(?)-šḁ WMM Asien u. Europa 263; etym. dub.; according to Hoffm Auszüge Act. Pers. Märt. 163 RSProph. i. n. 5 = ‘Castle of Mish,’ cf. Dl l.c.);—כַּרְכְּמִישׁ Is 10:9 2 Ch 35:20 (𝔊L Χαρχαμεις), כַּרְכְּמִשׁ Je 46:2 (𝔊 Χαρμεις, Καρχαμεις). Hittite capital, E. bank of…