תְּקוֹעִי
Tekoite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Tekoite’ 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
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H8621 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 3 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 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 14:4 הַ/תְּקֹעִית֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
- 2 Samuel 14:9 הַ/תְּקוֹעִית֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fs The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
- 2 Samuel 23:26 הַ/תְּקוֹעִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
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.
“Tekoite” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name תקועי (Tᵉqôwʻîy). First canonically at 2 Samuel 14:4, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in 2 Samuel. See 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8621 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.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 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
- 2 Samuel 3 verses 43%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 29%
- Nehemiah 2 verses 29%
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: Tekoite 3×, Tekoah 2×, Tekoites 2×
- American Standard Version: Tekoite 3×, Tekoa 2×, Tekoites 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tekoite 3×, Tekoa 2×, Tekoites 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tekoite 5×, Tekoites 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8621 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8621 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8621 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8621 across 7 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.
- Tekoite = see Tekoa " trumpet blast"
- an inhabitant of Tekoa
Word origin
תְּקוֹעִי, תְּקֹעִי adj.gent. of foregoing [ w.bp.ad ]
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תקוע (Tᵉqôwaʻ) (H8620) — Tekoa.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H8621 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/תְּקֹעִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 3:27 | 1 |
| הַ/תְּקֹעִית֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 14:4 | 1 |
| הַ/תְּקוֹעִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 27:9 | 1 |
| הַ/תְּקוֹעִ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 3:5 | 1 |
| הַ/תְּקוֹעִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:28 | 1 |
| הַ/תְּקוֹעִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:26 | 1 |
| הַ/תְּקוֹעִית֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 14:9 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
