Carmel

Carmel was a town in Judah, known as the home of Nabal and his wife Abigail, who later married David.

The name Carmel means “circumcised lamb; harvest; full of ears of corn”

PlaceOld Testament9 books24 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at Joshua 12:22; referred to as Carmel (כַּרְמֶל), Carmelite (כַּרְמְלִי), Carmelitess (כַּרְמְלִית), or Racal (רָכָל).

Location

Identified as
Khirbet el Kirmil
Certainty
Likely (84% of scholarship)
Coordinates
31.423° N, 35.133° E
Carmel
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Glossary entries

Carmel Racal Rachal

Alternative names

Mentions

  1. Joshua 12:22כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    …the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
  2. Joshua 15:55כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
  3. Joshua 19:26כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west the border touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
  4. 1 Samuel 15:12כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel, and behold, he has set up a monument for himself and has turned and gone down to Gilgal.”
  5. 1 Samuel 25:2כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
  6. 1 Samuel 25:5כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
  7. 1 Samuel 25:7כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
  8. 1 Samuel 25:40כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”
  9. 1 Samuel 27:3כַּרְמְלִית · Carmel
    David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
  10. 1 Samuel 30:5כַּרְמְלִי · Carmel
    David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.
  11. 1 Samuel 30:29רָכָל · Racal
    …to those in Racal and in the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites;
  12. 2 Samuel 2:2כַּרְמְלִי · Carmel
    So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
  13. 2 Samuel 3:3כַּרְמְלִי · Carmel
    …his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
  14. 2 Samuel 23:35כַּרְמְלִי · Carmel
    Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
  15. 1 Chronicles 3:1כַּרְמְלִי · Carmel
    These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;
  16. 1 Chronicles 11:37כַּרְמְלִי · Carmel
    Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai son of Ezbai,
  17. Song of Solomon 7:5כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
  18. Isaiah 33:9כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
  19. Isaiah 35:2כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
  20. Jeremiah 46:18כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
  21. Jeremiah 50:19כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
  22. Amos 1:2כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
  23. Amos 9:3כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
  24. Nahum 1:4כַּרְמֶל · Carmel
    He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.