tekoi · Tekoite

What it means

tekoi (תְּקוֹעִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Tekoite”.

A person from Tekoa.

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. Tekoite: from Tekoa, a town of Judah.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Tekoite ×5
• Tekoites ×2

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×2

• 2 Samuel 14:4

  The Tekoite woman spoke to the king; she fell on her face to the ground and bowed down, and said, “Save, O king!”

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The Tekoite woman said to the king, “On me, my lord the king, be the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne be innocent.”

• 2 Samuel 23:26

  Helez the Paltite; Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite;

• 1 Chronicles 11:28

  Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; Abiezer the Anathothite;

• 1 Chronicles 27:9

  The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.

• Nehemiah 3:5

  And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles did not put their neck to the service of their lords.

• Nehemiah 3:27

  After him the Tekoites repaired a second section, from opposite the great tower that projects as far as the wall of the Ophel.