Strong's #3751: Karkmiysh (pronounced kar-kem-eesh')

of foreign derivation; Karkemish, a place in Syria:--Carchemish.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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karkemı̂ysh

Carchemish = "fortress of Chemosh"

1) a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: of foreign derivation

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

2 Chronicles 35:20: "of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out"
Isaiah 10:9: "Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria"
Jeremiah 46:2: "by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which king of Babylon"