פַּרְעֹה נְכֹה
Pharaoh-necho
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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 H6549 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 4 distinct verses. 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.
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 23:29 פַרְעֹ֨ה נְכֹ֧ה n Proper n Proper In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
- 2 Kings 23:33 פַרְעֹ֨ה נְכֹ֤ה n Proper n Proper Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
- 2 Kings 23:34 פַּרְעֹ֨ה נְכֹ֜ה n Proper n Proper Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
- 2 Kings 23:35 לְ/פַרְעֹ֥ה נְכֹֽה prep + n Proper n Proper Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
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.
“Pharaoh-necho” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name פרעה נכה (Parʻôh Nᵉkôh). With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in 2 Kings, which alone accounts for 80% of its uses. First canonically at 2 Kings 23:29, it enters the text early. See 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6549 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Pharaohnechoh 4×
- American Standard Version†: Pharaoh-necoh 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Neco 4×, Pharaoh 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6549 across 5† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6549 across 5† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6549 across 8† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- Pharaoh-necho = "great house-he is smitten"
- the Pharaoh of Egypt who fought king Josiah of Judah at Megiddo and killed him
Word origin
I. n.pr.m. Necho (II), king of Egypt (Egyptian Nkw, i.e. (SteindorffBAS i. 346 f.) Nekawō; Assyrian Nikû Id.ib. SchrCOT 2 K 23:29 is grandfather of Bibl. Necho);—contemp. of Josiah and Nebuchad. [b.c. 611–605]: נְכוֹ 2 Ch 35:20 (𝔊 Φαραω Νεχαω), נְכֹה 2 Ch 35:22; 36:4 (𝔊 Φαραω Νεχαω); פַּרְעֹת נְכוֹ Je 46:2, פַּרְעֹה נְכֹה 2 K 23:29, 33, 34, 35 (all 𝔊 id.).
I. n.m. Pharaoh, Φαραω, title of Egyptian kings (Egyptian pr-ʿo, great house, of royal court, and (in new kingdom) of king GriffithHastings DB MeyGesch. Alt. i. 59 SteindBAS i. 343; in Assyrian priʾu according to most, cf. COTGloss. Steindl.c., but v. WklMVAG, 1898, 3 f.);—פ׳ Gn 12:15(×3), 17 + 212 times Hex (mostly JE, rarely DP), 1 S 2:27; 6:6; 1 K 3:1(×2) + 19 times K, Is 19:11(×2) + 3 times, Je 25:19 + 10 times, Ez 17:17 + 12 times, Ne 9:10; 1 Ch 4:18; 2 Ch 8:11 ψ 135:9; 136:15; Ct 1:9; + מֶלֶךְ מִצְרַיִם (not early) Je 25:19; 46:17; Dt 7:8; 11:3; Ez 29:2, 3; 30:21, 22; 31:2; 1 K 3:1; 9:16; 11:18; 2 K 17:7; 18:21 = Is 36:6; Gn 41:46 (E), Ex 6:11, 13, 27, 29; 14:8 (all P); c. n.pr. פ׳ חָפְרַע Je 44:30, פ׳ נְכֹה 46:2; 2 K 23:29, 33, 34, 35.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H6549 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פַרְעֹ֨ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:29 | 2 |
| לְ/פַרְעֹ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:35 | 1 |
| נְכֹ֜ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:34 | 1 |
| נְכֹ֤ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:33 | 1 |
| נְכֹ֧ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:29 | 1 |
| נְכֹֽה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:35 | 1 |
| נְכוֹ֙ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 46:2 | 1 |
| פַּרְעֹ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 46:2 | 1 |
| פַּרְעֹ֨ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:34 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
