Bible Person
Meaning: my vineyard; lamb of the waters · Male · 4 cross references
Carmi is the fourth son of Reuben and part of the foundational genealogy of the tribe. He is one of the names through which Reuben's family branches are preserved across several books. First appears in Gen 46:9.1
AI summary: Carmi matters because the cross references preserve him as a stable branch in Reuben's tribal ancestry. Like several similar figures, he is not attached to a narrative episode, but his place in Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, and Chronicles contributes to the continuity of Israel's family memory. The tribe's structure is built through such preserved names. Taken together, the material presents Carmi as a Reubenite ancestor whose line helps define the tribe's remembered identity.1
Central Figure
Carmi
Meaning: my vineyard; lamb of the waters
The last named of the four sons of Reuben (Gen.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.