Tekoa: meaning of the name

Tekoa in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Tekoa

• Tekoa

Tekoa in Scripture

“Tekoa” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

• 1 Chronicles 2:24

  And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb–ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

• 1 Chronicles 4:5

  And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

• 2 Chronicles 11:6

  He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

• 2 Chronicles 20:20

  And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

• Jeremiah 6:1

  O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth–haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

• Amos 1:1

  The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.