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- Posted on Jan 23, 2016
Re: What s the Biblical meaning of Carmen
- The name Carmen is a Spanish baby name. In Spanish the meaning of the name Carmen is: Garden. The Spanish form of the Hebrew Carmel. Famous bearer: Bizet's opera 'Carmen', first performed in 1875.
- Meaning: Fruitful place, park.
- Carmel was the name of a mountain in Central Palestine belonging to the tribe of Asher. Carmel was such a beautiful place, that Solomon compares the beauty of a bride to it. It was in Carmel, that the prophet Elijah brought back the people to their allegiance to God.
Carmel was also the name of a place in Judah. Nabal, the husband of Abigail was a native of this place.
Biblical reference for baby name Carmel:
1 Kings 18; Song of Solomon 7:5; Isaiah 33:9; Jeremiah 50:19; Amos 1:2; 2 Kings 2:25; Joshua 15:55; 1 Samuel 25:2,5,7,40
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