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# יׇקְתְאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3371

**Joktheel** — used 2 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

Joktheel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3371/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָקְתְאֵל: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3371/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (according to Ol§ 277 k. 3 יקת is Impf. from a √ קות, meaning dubious; poss. = יְקוּתִיאֵל q.v.; see Wetzst in De Is 3, 703)— in the Shephelah of Judah Jos 15:38, site unknown; 𝔊 Ιακαρεηλ A Ιεκθαηλ, 𝔊L Ιεχθαηλ. name given to סֶלַע (= Petra) by King Amaziah, its captor 2 K 14:7; 𝔊 Καθοηλ; A Ιεκθοηλ.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.38/#tree)

וְדִלְעָ֥ן וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה וְיָקְתְאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and Dilean and (the) Mizpah and Joktheel

*JPS 1917:* and Dilan, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel;

[2 Kings 14:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.14.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.14.7/#tree)

הוּא־הִכָּ֨ה אֶת־אֱד֤וֹם בְּגֵיא־מֶ֙לַח֙גֵיא־מֶ֙לַח֙ עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת אֲלָפִ֔ים וְתָפַ֥שׂ אֶת־הַסֶּ֖לַע בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וַיִּקְרָ֤א אֶת־שְׁמָהּ֙ יָקְתְאֵ֔ל עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* he he.defeated (et) Edom in.the.Valley.of.Salt in.\[the\] Valley.of.Salt ten thousand(s) and he.seized (et) (the) Sela in (the) battle and he.called (et) name its Joktheel until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3371.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3371/): 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).