תְּקוֹעַ
tekoa · Tekoa
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8620 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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tekoa (תְּקוֹעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Tekoa”.
A town of Judah south of Bethlehem; the wise woman Joab sent to David came from there, and later the prophet Amos.
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te·ko·a
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.
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Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 14:2
Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and he said to her, “Please mourn; put on, please, mourning clothes and do not anoint yourself with oil, and be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for these many days.
- 1 Chronicles 2:24
And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, the wife of Hezron, Abijah, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
- 1 Chronicles 4:5
And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:6
He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
- 2 Chronicles 20:20
They rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in YHWH your Elohim, and you will stand firm; believe in his prophets, and you will prosper.”
- Jeremiah 6:1
Flee for safety, sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa blow the horn, and over Beth-haccherem raise a signal, for evil looks down from the north, and a great breaking.
- Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.