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Strong's #8620 - תְּקוֹעַ
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Tekoa or Tekoah = “a stockade”
1) a Judaite, son of Ashur and grandson of Hezron (noun proper masculine)
2) a town in the hill country of Judah near Hebron built by king Rehoboam of Judah; birthplace of Amos (noun proper locative)
3) a wilderness area where king Jehoshaphat of Judah defeated the people of Moab, Ammon, and Mount Seir (noun proper locative)
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תְּקוֹעַ (“pitching,” sc. or tents), [Tekoa, Tekoch], pr.n. of a fortified town to the south east of Bethlehem, on the borders of the great desert (תְּקוֹעַ מִדְבַּר 2 Chronicles 20:20 compare 1Ma_9:33 ), 2 Samuel 14:2; 1 Chronicles 2:24; Jeremiah 6:1; Amos 1:1 Gr. Θεκωέ, 1Ma_9:33. Relandi Palæstina, p. 1028. Ruins are still found there, bearing the ancient name (Legh, in Macmichael’s Journey, p. 196.) [Gent. noun תְּקוֹעִי 2 Samuel 14:4; 1 Chronicles 11:28; Nehemiah 3:5.]