מְכֹנָה
Mekonah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Mekonah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4368 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
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מכנה — transliterated Mᵉkônâh — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Mekonah.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Nehemiah (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Nehemiah 11:28. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4368 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Mekonah 1×
- American Standard Version: Meconah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Meconah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mekonah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4368 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4368 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4368 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4368 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- Mekonah = "foundation"
- one of the towns which were reinhabited after the return from exile
Word origin
מְכֹנָה n.pr.loc. in Judah Ne 11:28.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מכונה (mᵉkôwnâh) (H4350) — pedestal.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כִּנָּה
- , v. כִּינָּה
כַּנָּה
- (v. כֵּן II)
- 1. base, stand. Kel. VII, 6 נותן את חכ׳ וכ׳ he places the base of a stove between them; [oth. opin. he puts a ruler between, measuring a straight line.]
- 2. ruler or ruled material. Ib. XII, 8, v. כֵּן II.
כָּנָה
- , Pi. כִּינָּה, v. כני.
כני
- , Pi. כִּנָּה, כִּינָּה (b. h., v. כֵּן I)
- 1. to qualify, define; to surname, to nickname; to modify an expression, circumscribe; to compare. B. Mets. 58ᵇ המְכַנֶּה שם רע וכ׳ he who calls his neighbor by a nickname. Shebu. 36ᵃ כַּנֵּה circumscribe (use the third person as euphemism). Sifré Num. 84, a. fr. כי׳ הכתוב the Bible modifies the expression (to avoid anthropomorphism, e.g. Zech. II, 12 עינו for עיני). Meg. IV, 9 המבנה בעריות he who modifies (symbolizes) in translating the laws of incest (e.g. Lev. XVIII, 7, ‘uncover not thy parents’ weakness or disgrace’). Yalk. Num. 771, v. פּוֹלְיָיטוֹן; a. fr. Part. pass. מְכוּנֶּה. Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 17 (ref. to באדם, Ps. LXVIII, 19) מכ׳ משה באדם (not לאדם) the name of Moses is here disguised by the substitute Adam.—[Yalk. Ps. 832 מכונה, v. כָּנַן.] e.g. Zechariah 2:12
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4368, 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 (Mekonah). 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
A base or foundation, a town in the south of Judah (Neh. 11:28), near Ziklag.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(foundation), one of the towns which were reinhabited after the captivity by the men of Judah. (Nehemiah 11:28)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a foot of a pillar; provision
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
