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אֶשְׁתְּמֹעַ
Eshtemoa
esh-tem-o'-ah
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼEshtᵉmôaʻ
“Eshtemoa or Eshtemoh, a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Eshtemoa or Eshtemoh, a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Eshtemoa, Eshtemoh.
- 6occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ2
- אֶשְׁתְּמֹֽעַ׃1
- בְּאֶשְׁתְּמֹֽעַ׃ ס1
- וְאֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖ה1
- וְאֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ1
How it is rendered · 4
- Eshtemoa3
- [were] in Eshtemoa1
- and Eshtemoa1
- and Eshtemoh1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- proper noun (a name)2
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1
- proper noun (a name)1
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 2
- HC/Npl · 1
- HC/Npm · 1
- HNpm · 1
- HR/Npl · 1
All 6, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Joshua2 occurrences
1 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Chronicles3 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 4:17אֶשְׁתְּמֹֽעַ׃ʾeshtemoa'proper noun (a name)The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon.here: Eshtemoa
- 1 Chronicles 4:19וְאֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַveeshtemoa'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.here: and Eshtemoa
- 1 Chronicles 6:57אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַʾeshtemoa'proper noun (a name)So the descendants of Aaron were given Hebron (a city of refuge), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa,here: Eshtemoa