כַּרְכְּמִישׁ

kar.ke.mish

Carchemish

Strong’s H3751Proper name, a place3 times in the Hebrew Bible

carchemish3

In the text

2 Chronicles 35:20בְּכַרְכְּמִישׁ
After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
Isaiah 10:9כְּכַרְכְּמִישׁ
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
Jeremiah 46:2בְּכַרְכְּמִשׁ
concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:

כַּרְכְּמִישׁ, כַּרְכְּמִשׁ n.pr.loc. city on Euphrates

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.