כרם
Appearance
Aramaic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]כָּרַם • (kāram)
- to prune
Noun
[edit]כְּרָם • (krām) m
- absolute state of כַּרְמָא (karmā)
Hebrew
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Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Ugaritic 𐎋𐎗𐎎 (krm, “vineyard”), Aramaic כַּרְמָא (karmā, “vineyard”), Arabic كَرْم (karm, “vines”), Akkadian 𒃾 (karānum, “wine, vine, grapes”), and – possibly the source – Egyptian kꜣm, see there.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Biblical Hebrew) IPA(key): /karm/
- (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈkɛrɛm/, [ˈkʰɛːʀɛm]
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈkeʁem/
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]כֶּרֶם • (kérem) m (plural indefinite כְּרָמִים, singular construct כֶּרֶם־, plural construct כַּרְמֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]
- vineyard
- Tanach, Deuteronomy 20:6, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וּמִי־הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר־נָטַע כֶּרֶם וְלֹא חִלְּלוֹ יֵלֵךְ וְיָשֹׁב לְבֵיתוֹ פֶּן־יָמוּת בַּמִּלְחָמָה וְאִישׁ אַחֵר יְחַלְּלֶנּוּ׃
- And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? Let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.
Declension
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Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
m | f | m | f | ||||
singular | indefinite | כֶּרֶם | first | כַּרְמִי | כַּרְמֵנוּ | ||
definite | הַכֶּרֶם | second | כַּרְמְךָ | כַּרְמֵךְ | כַּרְמְכֶם | כַּרְמְכֶן | |
construct | כֶּרֶם־ | third | כַּרְמוֹ | כַּרְמָהּ | כַּרְמָם | כַּרְמָן | |
plural | indefinite | כְּרָמִים | first | כרמיי / כְּרָמַי | כְּרָמֵינוּ | ||
definite | הַכְּרָמִים | second | כְּרָמֶיךָ | כרמייך / כְּרָמַיִךְ | כַּרְמֵיכֶם | כַּרְמֵיכֶן | |
construct | כַּרְמֵי־ | third | כְּרָמָיו | כְּרָמֶיהָ | כַּרְמֵיהֶם | כַּרְמֵיהֶן |
Derived terms
[edit]- בֵּית הַכֶּרֶם (bet hakérem)
- כַּרְמִיאֵל (karmi'él)
References
[edit]- H3754 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “כֶּרֶם”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 287b
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 671a
- “כרם” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
[edit]כרם on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
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