Mekonah

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Mekonah (AV [Note: Authorized Version.]; RV [Note: Revised Version.] needlessly changes to Meconah), A town inhabited after the Captivity (  Nehemiah 11:28 ). The site has not been identified.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Mek'onah. (Foundation). One of the towns which were reinhabited, after the captivity by the men of Judah.  Nehemiah 11:28.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("base".) A town with daughter villages, reinhabited after the captivity by men of Judah ( Nehemiah 11:28). Coupled with Ziklag which was in the far S.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City inhabited on the return from exile.  Nehemiah 11:28 . Identified by some with ruins at el Mekenna, 31 47' N, 34 51' E .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Nehemiah 11:28 1 Chronicles 2:49

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Nehemiah 11:28

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Mekonah', מֲכֹנָה , a Base , as in  1 Kings 7:27, etc.; Sept. in most editions omits, but v. r. Μαχνά and Μαβνή , Vulg. Mochona ), a town in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, and inhabited after the exile ( Nehemiah 11:28). From its being coupled (in that passage) with Ziklag,we should infer that it was situated far to the south, while the mention of the" daughter towns" ( בְּנוֹת , AV. "villages") dependent on it, seem to show that it was a place of some magnitude. Reland ( Palest . p. 892) thinks it may be identical with Mechanum, a village located by Jerome between Eleutheropolis and Jerusalem, eight miles from the former (Onomast. s.v. Bethmacha). It seems strange that Jerome should speak of a village south of Jerusalem when describing Beth-maachah, which lay at the northern extremity of Palestine ( 2 Samuel 20:14). The only unappropriated site at about the required distance is Jerash , not far north- east of Beit Nettif (Robinson, Researches , 2:342, note).