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HebrewH8620Noun

תְּקוֹעַ

te.qo.a

7Occurrences
H8620Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Tekoa, a place in Palestine

a form of H8619 (תָּקוֹעַ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Tekoa or Tekoah = "a stockade" town founded by Ashur son of Hezron in the hill country of Judah near Hebron rebuilt by king Rehoboam of Judah; birthplace of Amos Also named: te.qo.i (*תְּקוֹעִי *"Tekoa" H8621)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

תְּקוֹעַ appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
2
2 Chronicles
2
2 Samuel
1
Amos
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:24BSB

After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

1 Chronicles 4:5BSB

Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

2 Chronicles 11:6BSB

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

2 Chronicles 20:20BSB

Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

2 Samuel 14:2BSB

So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.