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title: יׇקְנְעָם — Jokneam · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יׇקְנְעָם (3362), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Jokneam. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יׇקְנְעָם

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«יׇקְנְעָם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Jokneam** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3362 · **BDB:** יָקְנְעָם

### Glosses

of.Jokneam (2); Jokneam (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Jokneam [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3362/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3362/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Canaanitish city, with a king, defined by לַכַּרְמֶל Jos 12:22; in Zebulun 19:11; Levitical city 21:34.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יׇקְנְעָם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3362/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 12:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.22/)

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מֶ֤לֶךְ קֶ֙דֶשׁ֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶֽלֶךְ־יָקְנֳעָ֥ם לַכַּרְמֶ֖ל אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Kedesh one the.king of.Jokneam of (the) Carmel one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

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[Joshua 19:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.11/)

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וְעָלָ֨ה גְבוּלָ֧ם ׀ לַיָּ֛מָּה וּמַרְעֲלָ֖ה וּפָגַ֣ע בְּדַבָּ֑שֶׁת וּפָגַע֙ אֶל־הַנַּ֔חַל אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י יָקְנְעָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.up border their to the west and Maralah and it.touches (on) Dabbesheth and it.touches (to) the wadi which \[is\].on the.face of.Jokneam

*JPS 1917:* And their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.

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