תְּקוֹעַ
Tekoa
BDB lists 4 entries for ‘Tekoa’ 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 H8620 appears — 7 distinct verses across 5 books. 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 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 11:6 תְּקֽוֹעַ n Proper He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
- 2 Chronicles 20:20 תְּק֑וֹעַ n Proper They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Yahweh your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
Jeremiah 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
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.
At its core, תקוע (Tᵉqôwaʻ) means “Tekoa.” Scripture first uses it in 2 Samuel 14:2. It turns up in 7 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (29%), then 2 Chronicles and 2 Samuel. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8620 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 29%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 29%
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 57%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 43%
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).
- King James Version: Tekoa 6×
- American Standard Version: Tekoa 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tekoa 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tekoa 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8620 across 7 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 H8620 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8620 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8620 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 4 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.
- Tekoa or Tekoah = "a stockade"
- a Judaite, son of Ashur and grandson of Hezron (noun proper masculine)
- a town in the hill country of Judah near Hebron built by king Rehoboam of Judah…
- a wilderness area where king Jehoshaphat of Judah defeated the people of Moab…
Word origin
n.pr.loc. in S. Judah (connex. with above √ dub.);—Am 1:1; Je 6:1; 2 Ch 11:6, as ‘son’ of Ashḥur 1 Ch 2:24; 4:5; תְּק֫וֹעָה 2 S 14:2; מִדְבַּר ת׳ 2 Ch 20:20; 𝔊 Θεκωε (also -ουε); mod. Tekûʾa, c. 5 m. S. of Bethlehem; v. RobBR i. 486f. BuhlG. 157f. TaylorHast.DB Tekoa GASmTwelve Proph. i. 74 f. Dr Am 1:1.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תקוע (tâqôwaʻ) (H8619) — trumpet blast.
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.
תְּקוֹעַ
- (b. h.) pr. n. pl. Tekoa, near Bethlehem in Judæa. Men. VIII, 3 (85ᵇ) ת׳ אלפא לשמן (Mish. ed. תקועה) Tekoa was the first choice for oil (for the Temple); Tosef. ib. IX, 5. Tosef. Shebi. VII, 15. Tosef. Erub. VIII (V), 6; Sabb. 147ᵇ; Erub. 91ᵃ; Men. 72ᵃ (v. Neub. Géogr. p. 128 sq.).
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H8620 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/בִ/תְק֨וֹעַ֙ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 6:1 | 1 |
| מִ/תְּק֑וֹעַ | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:1 | 1 |
| תְק֔וֹעַ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:5 | 1 |
| תְקֽוֹעַ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:24 | 1 |
| תְּק֑וֹעַ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 20:20 | 1 |
| תְּק֔וֹעָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 14:2 | 1 |
| תְּקֽוֹעַ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 11:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8620, 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.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Tekoa). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
trumpet; that is confirmed
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 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.
