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<p> (Heb. id. קוֹע , Sept. ῾Υχουέ v. r. Κούθ, Κουδέ, Λούδ; Vulg. principes), a word that occurs but once, in the prophetic denunciations of punishment to the [[Jewish]] people from the various nations whose idolatries they had adopted: " The [[Babylonians]] and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the [[Assyrians]] with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses" ( Ezekiel 23:23). The Sept., Symmachus, Theodotion, Targums, Peshito, and Engl. Vers., followed by many interpreters, regard it as a proper name of some province or place in the [[Babylonian]] empire; but none such has been found, and the evident paronomasia with the preceding term in the same verse suggests a symbolical signification as an appellative, which appears to be furnished by the kindred Arabic kua, the designation of a he-camel or stallion for breeding (a figure in keeping with the allusions in the context to gross lewdness, as a type of idolatry), and hence tropically a prince or noble. This is the sense defended by J. D. Michaelis (Suppl. 2175), after [[Jerome]] and the Heb. interpreters, and adopted by [[Gesenius]] (Thesaur. Heb. p. 1207). (See [[Shoa]]); (See [[Pekod]]). </p>

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