kar.mel denotes cultivated, productive land, including its grain or produce in food and offering contexts.

The term most often denotes a cultivated, productive tract of land, whether contrasted with wilderness or wood, described as bearing fruit, or associated with vineyards and forests. In two food and offering contexts, it occurs with grain and firstfruits, indicating produce from such cultivation.

1. Cultivated, productive land · dominant

   In Isaiah 32:15 the APB renders the wilderness becoming “a plantation” and that plantation being reckoned as wood; Isaiah 32:16 places righteousness in this setting. Jeremiah 2:7 similarly renders a land whose fruit and goodness may be eaten as “the land of the plantation,” while Isaiah 16:10 places it beside vineyards and winepresses.

   Isaiah 32:15Isaiah 32:16Jeremiah 2:7Isaiah 16:10Jeremiah 4:26Isaiah 29:17
2. Grain or produce from cultivation · occasional

   In Leviticus 2:14, the absolute noun occurs in the firstfruits grain offering clause, which the APB renders “crushed grain of the plantation.” In 2 Kings 4:42 it occurs in a brought-food context alongside twenty loaves of barley food; the APB renders the item “plantation” in the man’s sack, so the precise English correspondence remains uncertain.

   Leviticus 2:142 Kings 4:42Leviticus 23:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly renders the term “plantation,” including land contrasted with wilderness, fruit-bearing land, and a setting beside vineyards. It also uses “forest of its plantation” in 2 Kings 19:23 and “fruitful field” in Jeremiah 48:33; these are verse-level renderings rather than fixed word-for-word equivalents.