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Koa

Koa, a people group mentioned by Ezekiel (Ezk.23.23).

Koa is mentioned in Ezk.23.23 as one of the people groups that would come against Jerusalem in judgment, along with the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, and "all the Assyrians."

Approximate location: 34.798, 48.515 · view on a map · on the Bible atlas

Bible dictionary

Koa Easton Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

He-camel, occurs only in Ezek. 23:23, some province or place in the Babylonian empire, used in this passage along with Shoa (q.v.).

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Koa Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(he-camel) is a word which occurs only in (Ezekiel 23:23) It may perhaps have been a city or district of Babylonia; or it may be a common noun, signifying “prince” or “nobleman.”

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Koa Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

hope; a congregation; a line; a rule

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Koa Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

KO'A (he-camel), probably a prince or leader, possibly a city of Babylonia; one of the enemies of Jerusalem. Ezr 23:23.

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Koa Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

KO'A (he-camel), probably a prince or leader, possibly a city of Babylonia; one of the enemies of Jerusalem. Ezr 23:23.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Koa appears

1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H6970

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