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# נְכֹה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5224

**smitten ones** — used 8 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

smitten ones [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5224/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְכוֹ: n.pr.m. Necho [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5224/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Necho (II), king of Egypt (Egyptian Nkw, i.e. (SteindorffBAS i. 346 f.) Nekawō; Assyrian Nikû Id.ib. SchrCOT 2 K 23:29 is grandfather of Bibl. Necho);—contemp. of Josiah and Nebuchad. \[b.c. 611–605\]: נְכוֹ 2 Ch 35:20 (𝔊 Φαραω Νεχαω), נְכֹה 2 Ch 35:22; 36:4 (𝔊 Φαραω Νεχαω); פַּרְעֹת נְכוֹ Je 46:2, פַּרְעֹה נְכֹה 2 K 23:29, 33, 34, 35 (all 𝔊 id.).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Necho (7); of Necho (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 35:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.20/#tree)

אַחֲרֵ֣י כָל־זֹ֗את אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵכִ֤ין יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַבַּ֔יִת עָלָ֞ה נְכ֧וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֛יִם לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ עַל־פְּרָ֑ת וַיֵּצֵ֥א לִקְרָאת֖וֹ יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* after all this when he.had.prepared Josiah (et) the house he.went.up Necho the.king of.Egypt to do.battle at Carchemish on \[the\].Euphrates and he.went.out to meet him Josiah

*JPS 1917:* After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

[2 Kings 23:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.33/#tree)

וַיַּאַסְרֵהוּ֩ פַרְעֹ֨ה נְכֹ֤ה בְרִבְלָה֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חֲמָ֔ת מִמְּלֹ֖ךְבִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַיִּתֶּן־עֹ֙נֶשׁ֙ עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ מֵאָ֥ה כִכַּר־כֶּ֖סֶף וְכִכַּ֥ר זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and he confined.him Pharaoh Necho at Riblah in the.land of.Hamath from reigning in Jerusalem and he.put a.fine on the land one.hundred talent\[s\] of.silver and a.talent of.gold

*JPS 1917:* And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a fine of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5224.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5224/): 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).