Strong's Hebrew: 5238. נְכֹתֹה (nekoth) -- Balm, spice, gum

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Lexicon

nekoth: Balm, spice, gum

Original Word: נְכֹת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: nkoth
Pronunciation: neh-KOTH
Phonetic Spelling: (nek-oth')
KJV: precious things
NASB: treasure
Word Origin: [probably for H5219 (נְכאוֹת - aromatic gum)]

1. spicery
2. (generally) valuables

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

precious things

Probably for nko'th; spicery, i.e. (generally) valuables -- precious things.

see HEBREW nko'th

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
treasure
NASB Translation
treasure (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[נְכֹת] noun [feminine] treasure (so context demands) (ᵐ5^L 2 Kings 20:13 τῆς ὑπάρξεως, compare ᵑ6 ᵑ7; derivation uncertain; Dl^{Prol. 141} compare Assyrian bit nakamti (nakanti), house of treasure, √ nakâmu, heap up [Dl^{HWB 462}], whence ׳נ ׳ב perhaps borrowed; this favoured by Nö^{ZMG xl (1886), 731} Hpt^{ZA ii. 256} (reading nakavâti = nakamâti, and Hebrew נִכְוֺתָיו ׳ב or נְכוֺתָו ׳ב)). — Only suffix בֵּית נְכֹתֹה = his treasure-house 2 Kings 20:13 = Isaiah 39:2.

Forms and Transliterations

נְכֹתֹ֡ה נְכֹתֹ֡ו נכתה נכתו nə·ḵō·ṯōh nə·ḵō·ṯōw nechoTo nechoToh nəḵōṯōh nəḵōṯōw

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Englishman's Concordance

2 Kings 20:13
HEB: כָּל־ בֵּ֣ית נְכֹתֹ֡ה אֶת־ הַכֶּסֶף֩
NAS: them all his treasure house,
KJV: them all the house of his precious things, the silver,
INT: all house his treasure the silver and the gold

Isaiah 39:2
HEB: [נְכֹתָה כ] (נְכֹתֹ֡ו ק) אֶת־
NAS: and showed them [all] his treasure house,
KJV: them the house of his precious things, the silver,
INT: and showed house precious things the silver and the gold

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5238
2 Occurrences

nə·ḵō·ṯōw — 1 Occ.
nə·ḵō·ṯōh — 1 Occ.