Bible Names

Ikkesh: meaning of the name

Ikkesh means “forward; wicked.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ikkesh in Hebrew and Greek

עִקֵּשׁ H6142

ʻIqqêsh (ik-kashe') — Ikkesh, an Israelite

the same as H6141 (עִקֵּשׁ); perverse;

Who named Ikkesh in the Bible

Ikkesh in Scripture

“Ikkesh” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Samuel 23:26

    Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

  • 1 Chronicles 11:28

    Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi–ezer the Antothite,

  • 1 Chronicles 27:9

    The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.