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# תְּקוֹעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8620

**Tekoa** — used 7 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

Tekoa [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8620/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּקוֹעַ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8620/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in S. Judah (connex. with above √ dub.);—Am 1:1; Je 6:1; 2 Ch 11:6, as ‘son’ of Ashḥur 1 Ch 2:24; 4:5; תְּק֫וֹעָה 2 S 14:2; מִדְבַּר ת׳ 2 Ch 20:20; 𝔊 Θεκωε (also -ουε); mod. Tekûʾa, c. 5 m. S. of Bethlehem; v. RobBR i. 486f. BuhlG. 157f. TaylorHast.DB Tekoa GASmTwelve Proph. i. 74 f. Dr Am 1:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tekoa (3); of Tekoa (3); to (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.5/#tree)

וּלְאַשְׁחוּר֙ אֲבִ֣י תְק֔וֹעַ הָי֖וּ שְׁתֵּ֣י נָשִׁ֑ים חֶלְאָ֖ה וְנַעֲרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and to Ashhur the.father of.Tekoa they.belonged two wives Helah and Naarah

*JPS 1917:* And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

[2 Chronicles 11:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.6/#tree)

וַיִּ֧בֶן אֶת־בֵּֽית־לֶ֛חֶםבֵּֽית־לֶ֛חֶם וְאֶת־עֵיטָ֖ם וְאֶת־תְּקֽוֹעַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.built (et) Bethlehem Bethlehem and (et) Etam and (et) Tekoa

*JPS 1917:* He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8620.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8620/): 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).