יׇקְנְעָם
Jokneam
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Jokneam’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3362 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 12:22 יָקְנֳעָ֥ם n Proper the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
- Joshua 19:11 יָקְנְעָֽם n Proper and their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam;
- Joshua 21:34 יָקְנְעָ֖ם n Proper To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Jokneam” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name יקנעם (Yoqnᵉʻâm). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. First canonically at Joshua 12:22, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3362 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Jokneam 3×
- American Standard Version: Jokneam 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jokneam 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jokneam 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3362 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3362 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3362 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3362 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Jokneam = "the people lament"
- a city of Canaan conquered by Joshua and in the territory of Zebulun but allotted to the Merarite Levites and located…
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Canaanitish city, with a king, defined by לַכַּרְמֶל Jos 12:22; in Zebulun 19:11; Levitical city 21:34.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קון (qûwn) (H6969) — to lament.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H3362 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָקְנְעָ֖ם | Noun, Proper | Joshua 21:34 | 1 |
| יָקְנְעָֽם | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:11 | 1 |
| יָקְנֳעָ֥ם | Noun, Proper | Joshua 12:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3362, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jokneam). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Gathered by the people, (Josh. 19:11; 21:34), a city "of Carmel" (12:22), i.e., on Carmel, allotted with its suburbs to the Merarite Levites. It is the modern Tell Kaimon, about 12 miles south-west of Nazareth, on the south of the river Kishon.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(possessed by the people), a city of the tribe of Zebulun, allotted with its suburbs to the Merarite Levites. (Joshua 21:34) Its modern site is Tell Kaimon, an eminence which stands just below the eastern termination of Carmel.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
possessing, or building up, of the people
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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