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nᵊqōdāʾ נְקוֹדָא ‘Nekoda’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: feminine of nāqōd נָקֹד ‘speckled’ (in the figurative sense of marked)
Roots: נקוד

nᵊqōdāʾ pr n m pers
Nekoda = "distinguished"
1) head of a family of temple slaves returning from exile to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel
2) head of a family of exiles who were from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer and who could not identify their father's house or their genealogy being of Israel and who returned with Zerubbabel

Mentioned in Ezra 2:48, 2:60 Nehemiah 7:62, 7:50

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