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# יׇקְנְעָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3362

**Jokneam** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jokneam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3362/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָקְנְעָם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3362/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Canaanitish city, with a king, defined by לַכַּרְמֶל Jos 12:22; in Zebulun 19:11; Levitical city 21:34.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jokneam (2); Jokneam (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.22/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ קֶ֙דֶשׁ֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶֽלֶךְ־יָקְנֳעָ֥ם לַכַּרְמֶ֖ל אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Kedesh one the.king of.Jokneam of (the) Carmel one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

[Joshua 19:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.11/#tree)

וְעָלָ֨ה גְבוּלָ֧ם ׀ לַיָּ֛מָּה וּמַרְעֲלָ֖ה וּפָגַ֣ע בְּדַבָּ֑שֶׁת וּפָגַע֙ אֶל־הַנַּ֔חַל אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י יָקְנְעָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.up border their to the west and Maralah and it.touches (on) Dabbesheth and it.touches (to) the wadi which \[is\].on the.face of.Jokneam

*JPS 1917:* And their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3362/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).