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title: נְכֹה — smitten ones · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְכֹה (5224), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: smitten ones. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. Necho. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְכֹה

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«נְכֹה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **smitten ones** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 5224 · **BDB:** נְכוֹ

### Glosses

Necho (7); of.Necho (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smitten ones [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5224/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. Necho [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5224/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Necho (II), king of Egypt (Egyptian Nkw, i.e. (SteindorffBAS i. 346 f.) Nekawō; Assyrian Nikû Id.ib. SchrCOT 2 K 23:29 is grandfather of Bibl. Necho);—contemp. of Josiah and Nebuchad. \[b.c. 611–605\]: נְכוֹ 2 Ch 35:20 (𝔊 Φαραω Νεχαω), נְכֹה 2 Ch 35:22; 36:4 (𝔊 Φαραω Νεχαω); פַּרְעֹת נְכוֹ Je 46:2, פַּרְעֹה נְכֹה 2 K 23:29, 33, 34, 35 (all 𝔊 id.).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְכֹה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5224/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 35:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.20/)

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אַחֲרֵ֣י כָל־זֹ֗את אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵכִ֤ין יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַבַּ֔יִת עָלָ֞ה נְכ֧וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֛יִם לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ עַל־פְּרָ֑ת וַיֵּצֵ֥א לִקְרָאת֖וֹ יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* after all this when he.had.prepared Josiah (et) the house he.went.up Necho the.king of.Egypt to do.battle at Carchemish on \[the\].Euphrates and he.went.out to meet him Josiah

*JPS 1917:* After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

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[2 Kings 23:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.33/)

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וַיַּאַסְרֵהוּ֩ פַרְעֹ֨ה נְכֹ֤ה בְרִבְלָה֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חֲמָ֔ת מִמְּלֹ֖ךְבִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַיִּתֶּן־עֹ֙נֶשׁ֙ עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ מֵאָ֥ה כִכַּר־כֶּ֖סֶף וְכִכַּ֥ר זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and he confined.him Pharaoh Necho at Riblah in the.land of.Hamath from reigning in Jerusalem and he.put a.fine on the land one.hundred talent\[s\] of.silver and a.talent of.gold

*JPS 1917:* And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a fine of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

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