Bible Names

Jokneam: meaning of the name

Jokneam means “possessing, or building up, of the people.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Jokneam in Hebrew and Greek

יׇקְנְעָם H3362

Yoqnᵉʻâm (yok-neh-awm') — Jokneam, a place in Palestine

from H6969 (קוּן) and H5971 (עַם); (the) people will be lamented;

Places named Jokneam

Jokneam in Scripture

“Jokneam” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 12:22

    The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;

  • Joshua 19:11

    And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;

  • Joshua 21:34

    And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,

  • 1 Kings 4:12

    Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth–shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth–shean to Abel–meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam: