Word Study · Strong's H8620 · Hebrew

תְּקוֹעַ

Teqoa

tek-o'-ah

Strong's 1890 spelling: Tᵉqôwaʻ

“Tekoa, a place in Palestine”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Tekoa, a place in Palestine

Rendered in the KJV as

Tekoa, Tekoah.

7
occurrencesin the Old Testament
5 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
7
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 7 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 7

וּבִתְק֙וֹעַ֙1
מִתְּק֑וֹעַ1
תְק֔וֹעַ1
תְּק֑וֹעַ1
תְקֽוֹעַ׃1
תְּקֽוֹעַ׃1
תְּק֔וֹעָה1

How it is rendered · 4

Tekoa4
and in Tekoa1
from Tekoa1
Tekoa towards1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 4

proper noun (a name)4
conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1
preposition + proper noun (a name)1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNpl · 4
HC/R/Npl · 1
HNpl/Sd · 1
HR/Npl · 1

All 7, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

1 Chronicles2 of 7 · 29%
2 Chronicles2 of 7 · 29%
2 Samuel1 of 7 · 14%
Jeremiah1 of 7 · 14%
Amos1 of 7 · 14%

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2 Samuel1 occurrence

2 Samuel 14:2תְּק֔וֹעָהtekoahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)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.here: Tekoa towards

1 Chronicles2 occurrences

2 Chronicles2 occurrences

Jeremiah1 occurrence

Jeremiah 6:1וּבִתְק֙וֹעַ֙uvitkoa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.here: and in Tekoa

Amos1 occurrence

Amos 1:1מִתְּק֑וֹעַmitekoa'preposition + proper noun (a name)These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.here: from Tekoa

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