Hebrew word · H3638

כִּלְמָד

kilmad

Chilmad

It appears only here and has no secure identification. Proposals include Kalwadha near Baghdad (an old guess with little support), and a misdivided kol-Maday, 'all Media', supported by the Aramaic Targum tradition and adopted by several commentators.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Chilmad = "enclosure"

a city of Assyria mentioned in conjunction with Sheba and Asshur

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Ezekiel 27:23

Range of meaning

It appears only here and has no secure identification. Proposals include Kalwadha near Baghdad (an old guess with little support), and a misdivided kol-Maday, 'all Media', supported by the Aramaic Targum tradition and adopted by several commentators.

Against the English

English versions spell it Chilmad or Kilmad. Nothing in them tells the reader that the name is unknown.

Used elsewhere in the period

There is no attestation outside this verse. The Septuagint reads a different name (Charman), and the Targum reads 'Media'.

Where it appears

Ezekiel · 1

  1. Ezekiel 27:23 כִּלְמַ֥ד Chilmad

    Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

    Here: An unknown place named only here. It may be a scribal form of kol-Maday, 'all Media'.

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