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nāxōn נָכוֹן ‘Nacon’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from kūn כּוּן ‘to establish / blow’
Roots: כון

nāxōn pr n m pers
Nachon = "prepared"
1) the owner of the threshing floor which the ark was passing on the trip to Jerusalem when it started to fall off the cart, Uzzah steadied it, and God smote him dead for touching it

Mentioned in 2 Samuel 6:6

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