Nᵉqôwdâʼ — H5353

Definition

feminine proper noun

Nekoda, a Temple-servant

1. Nekoda = "distinguished"
2. head of a family of temple slaves returning from exile to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel
3. head of a family of exiles who were from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer and who could not identify their father's house or their genealogy being of Israel and who returned with Zerubbabel

Usually translated as

Nekoda

Origin

feminine of H5348 (in the figurative sense of marked); distinction

• Nâqôd (H5348)

Occurrences

Nᵉqôwdâʼ occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezra (2), Nehemiah (2)

• Ezra 2:48 — The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda (נְקוֹדָ֖א), the children of Gazzam,
• Ezra 2:60 — The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda (נְקוֹדָ֑א), six hundred fifty and two.
• Nehemiah 7:50 — The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda (נְקוֹדָֽא),
• Nehemiah 7:62 — The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda (נְקוֹדָ֑א), six hundred forty and two.