Carmel
kar.mel is chiefly a proper place-name, appearing in accounts of gathering, travel, boundaries, and pastoral land.
The attested use is chiefly a proper place-name, occurring with Mount Carmel, travel to and from it, towns and territorial boundaries, and descriptions of its head or its position by the sea. Two occurrences tagged common masculine singular absolute present it as “the Carmel” in agricultural and pastoral settings.
Senses in use
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Proper place-name in narrative and geographic reference · dominant
The form is tagged Noun Proper where people gather at Mount Carmel in 1 Kings 18:19 and 1 Kings 18:20, where Elijah goes to its top in 1 Kings 18:42, and where a woman comes to the man of God at Mount Carmel in 2 Kings 4:25. It also marks a locality among towns or a boundary toward the sea: in Joshua 15:55 the APB renders a town list including “Carmel,” and in Joshua 19:26 it renders a boundary reaching “Carmel toward the sea.”
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The Carmel as pastoral or cultivated terrain · rare
In the two occurrences tagged Noun · Common · Masc · Sg · Absolute, the term occurs in land-use and pasture contexts. In 2 Chronicles 26:10 the APB renders farmers and vinedressers “in the Carmel,” while in Micah 7:14 it places the flock “in the midst of Carmel” and asks that it pasture with Bashan and Gilead.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “Mount Carmel” or “Carmel,” and in the common-noun-tagged occurrences as “the Carmel.” In Song of Songs 7:6, however, the supplied APB wording does not visibly represent the term, so its specific English contribution there cannot be isolated from the translation.