Bible Names

Carmi: meaning of the name

Carmi means “my vineyard; lamb of the waters.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Carmi in Hebrew and Greek

כַּרְמִי H3756

Karmîy (kar-mee') — Karmi, the name of three Israelites

from H3754 (כֶּרֶם); gardener;

People named Carmi in the Bible

Carmi in Scripture

“Carmi” appears in 8 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 46:9

    And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

  • Exodus 6:14

    These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.

  • Numbers 26:6

    Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

  • Joshua 7:1

    But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.

  • Joshua 7:18

    And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:7

    And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:1

    The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

  • 1 Chronicles 5:3

    The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.