H8620 H8620
Tekoa, a town in the Judean hills south of Bethlehem, home of the wise woman and the prophet Amos.
Tekoa was a hilltop settlement roughly five miles south of Bethlehem, overlooking the wilderness that bore its name. It is best known as the hometown of the prophet Amos (Amos 1:1) and the unnamed wise woman whom Joab enlisted to persuade David to recall Absalom (2 Sam 14:2). Rehoboam fortified it as part of Judah's defensive network (2 Chr 11:6), and Jehoshaphat's army assembled in the wilderness of Tekoa before the miraculous defeat of Moab and Ammon (2 Chr 20:20).
Senses
1. Tekoa (place name) — The proper noun referring to the Judean town of Tekoa (modern Khirbet Tequ'a). All seven occurrences designate the same location. The genealogical notices in 1 Chronicles 2:24 and 4:5 personify the town as a 'son' of Ashhur, reflecting the common biblical idiom of ancestor-as-city-founder. German 'von Tekoa' and Spanish 'Tecoa' preserve the toponym with minor phonetic adaptation, while French and German occasionally leave the Hebrew untransliterated, underscoring how proper nouns can resist translation across languages. 7×
AR["إلى تَقوعَ", "تَقوعَ", "تَقُوعَ", "مِنْ-تَقوعَ", "وَ-فِي-تَقُوعَ"]·ben["এবং-তকোয়াতে", "তকোয়", "তকোয়া-থেকে", "তকোয়ের", "ত্কোয়ের", "ত্কোয়াতে"]·DE["[ובתקוע]", "[תקוע]", "von-Tekoa", "zu-Tekoa"]·EN["Tekoa", "Teqo'a", "and-in-Tekoa", "from-Tekoa", "to-Tekoa"]·FR["Tekoa", "[ובתקוע]", "[תקוע]", "à-Tekoa"]·heb["ו-ב-תקוע", "מ-תּקוֹע", "תקוע", "תקועה"]·HI["और-में-तकोआ", "तकोआ", "तकोआ-को", "तकोआके", "से-तकोआ"]·ID["Tekoa", "dan-di-Tekoa", "dari-Tekoa"]·IT["[ובתקוע]", "[מתקוע]", "[תקוע]", "a-Tekoa"]·jav["Tékoa", "dhateng-Tekoa", "lan-wonten-ing-Tékoa", "saking-Tekoa"]·KO["그리고-에-덴고아에서", "드고아", "드고아로", "떼고아에서", "르고아", "르고아의"]·PT["Tekoa", "Teqo'a", "Teqo'ah", "de-Teqoa", "e-em-Teqoa"]·RU["Текоа", "в-Текоа", "и-в-Фекое", "из-Фекои"]·ES["Tecoa", "Teqoa", "Y-en-Teqoa", "de-Tecoa"]·SW["Tekoa", "kutoka-Tekoa", "na-katika-Tekoa", "wa-Tekoa"]·TR["Tekoa'dan", "Tekoa'nın", "Tekoa'ya", "Tekoa'yı", "ve-Tekoa'da"]·urd["اور-تقوع-میں", "تقوع", "تقوع-سے", "تقوع-کا", "تقوع-کے", "تقوعہ-کو"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† תְּקוֹעַ 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.