Carmel

Carmel in the Bible refers to two distinct places:

• Mount Carmel, coastal mountain range in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea
• Carmel (biblical settlement), an ancient Israelite town in Judea

The word Carmel (Hebrew language: כַּרְמֶל) means "fresh" (planted), or "vineyard" (planted) and Karmiel (Hebrew: כַּרְמִיאֵל‎) is a portmanteau meaning "God's Vineyard".

The word is also commonly used in reference to the Carmelites and their houses or foundations.

In modern times, the name was also given to:

Places

• Mount Carmel (disambiguation), places named after Mount Carmel
• Carmel City, a Druze town
• Carmel, Canlubang, a sitio in the Philippines
• French Carmel, neighborhood in Haifa, Israel
• al-Karmil, a Palestinian village and modern-day successor to the Biblical Carmel
• Carmel, Har Hebron, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, adjacent to the ancient site whose name it shares
• Carmel Market, a shuq in Tel Aviv, Israel

Australia

• Carmel, Western Australia, suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Spain

• El Carmel, district in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia

United States

• Carmel Formation, a rock unit in Utah
• Carmel, Indiana, a city in Hamilton County
• Carmel, Maine, a town in Penobscot County
• Carmel, New York, a town in Putnam County
• Carmel, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Carmel, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Carmel, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Waupaca County
• Carmel Hamlet, New York
• Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, or "Carmel", a city in Monterey County
• Carmel River, a river in Monterey County, California
• Carmel Highlands, California, a small, unincorporated town located in Monterey County
• Carmel Valley (disambiguation), a geographic region and American Viticultural Area
• Carmel Valley Village, California, another small, unincorporated town in Monterey County
• Carmel Valley, San Diego, California, a neighborhood of the city of San Diego
• Carmel, a neighborhood in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Wales

• Carmel, Anglesey
• Carmel, Carmarthenshire
• Carmel, Flintshire
• Carmel, Gwynedd

People

• John Carmel Heenan (1905–1975), priest in the Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom
• Roger C. Carmel (1932–1986), American character actor
• Carmel (singer), female singer of the eponymous British band Carmel
• Carmel Myers (1899–1980), American actress
• Carmel Bakurski (born 1976), Australian field hockey defender
• Carmit Bachar (born 1974), American singer, a previous member of The Pussycat Dolls

Other

• Carmel is the term used to refer to a monastery of the monks and convent of the nuns of the Carmelite religious order
• Carmel School (disambiguation), various schools and colleges
• Carmel & District Cricket Club North Wales village cricket team
• Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (Carmel Mission), a Spanish mission located in Monterey County, California
• Carmel and Carmeleno, other names for the Rumsen language and people, California
• Autocars Co., or Carmel automobile, fiberglass-shelled cars used in Israel during the 1960s and 70s
• Carmel daisy, flowering plant of the family Dipsacales
• Carmel Formation, a Middle Jurassic rock unit in the southwestern United States
• Carmel Winery, a vineyard and winery based in Israel, well known for producing and marketing kosher wine
• i840 'Carmel', a 1999 chipset for dual Pentium 3 and Pentium 3 Xeon processors
• Carmel, Carmarthenshire, a terrestrial broadcast transmission station in Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Carmel Ventures, an Israeli venture capital firm
• Carmel (film), a 2011 film starring Josh Hutcherson and Hayden Panettiere
• Carmel Agrexco, Israel's largest exporter of agricultural produce
• Carmel (company), the international car and limousine service established in 1978
• KARMEL, a mnemonic for causes of high anion gap metabolic acidosis

See also

• Caramel
• Carmen (a unisex given name, its first root is a diminutive nickname for Carmel)
• Names similar to, for example, Carmel are Carmen, Karmel, Karmen and Armen.