Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H8620
תְּקוֹעַ
Teqoatek-o'-ah
Tekoa
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Tᵉqôwaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8620is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8620
Tekoa, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Tekoa, Tekoah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Teqoa is rendered "Tekoa". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 14:2So 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.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
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.
2 Samuel 14:2תְּק֔וֹעָה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's seven uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Tekoa4
- and in Tekoa1
- from Tekoa1
- Tekoa towards1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּבִתְק֙וֹעַ֙1
- מִתְּק֑וֹעַ1
- תְק֔וֹעַ1
- תְּק֑וֹעַ1
- תְקֽוֹעַ׃1
- תְּקֽוֹעַ׃1
- תְּק֔וֹעָה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
2 Samuel
one use
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.
- תְּק֔וֹעָהtekoahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Tekoa towards
1 Chronicles
two uses
After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
- תְקֽוֹעַ׃tekoa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Tekoa
Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- תְק֔וֹעַtekoa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Tekoa
2 Chronicles
two uses
He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
- תְּקֽוֹעַ׃tekoa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Tekoa
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.”
- תְּק֑וֹעַtekoa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Tekoa
Jeremiah
one use
“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.
- וּבִתְק֙וֹעַ֙uvitkoa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and in Tekoa
Amos
one use
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.
- מִתְּק֑וֹעַmitekoa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Tekoa
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.