BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3362
yoq.ne.am — Jokneam
Jokneam = "the people lament" a city of Canaan conquered by Joshua and in the territory of Zebulun but allotted to the Merarite Levites and located Mount Carmel Also named: yoq.me.am (יׇקְמְעָם "Jokmeam" H3361)
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3361
yoq.me.am — Jokmeam
Jokmeam = "gathered by the people" a city of refuge in Ephraim given to the Kohathite Levites Another name of yoq.ne.am (יׇקְנְעָם "Jokneam" H3362)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Gathered by the people, (Josh. 19:11; 21:34), a city “of Carmel” (12:22), i.e., on Carmel, allotted with its suburbs to the Merarite Levites. It is the modern Tell Kaimon, about 12 miles south-west of Nazareth, on the south of the river Kishon.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
