paro-necho · Pharaoh Neco

What it means

paro-necho (פַּרְעֹה נְכֹה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Pharaoh Neco”.

A king of Egypt who killed Josiah at Megiddo, removed Jehoahaz from the throne and set up Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:29-35). He was later defeated by Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish (Jeremiah 46:2).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A pharaoh who killed Josiah at Megiddo.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Neco ×5
• Pharaoh ×5

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×8
• Jeremiah×2

• 2 Kings 23:29

  In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went to meet him, and he put him to death at Megiddo when he saw him.

• 2 Kings 23:33

  Pharaoh Neco bound him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he would not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed a fine on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

• 2 Kings 23:34

  Pharaoh Neco made king Eliakim son of Josiah in place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away, and he came to Egypt and died there.

• 2 Kings 23:35

  The silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; but he assessed the land to give the silver according to the order of Pharaoh; from each according to his assessment he exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

• Jeremiah 46:2

  Concerning Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

And 5 more times.