What Does Nehemiah 11:28 Mean in the King James?

And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,

Nehemiah 11:28 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

Even the “villages” are called a place’s daughters, so the verse gives a settlement its identity through the communities that belong to it.

THE MEANING

The verse holds a named center and its surrounding settlements together as one lived landscape. Mekonah’s name carries the sense of a base or established place, while its “daughters” show that a place’s life extends beyond its center.

THE ROOT

מְכֹנָה

Mekonah

GROWS FROM

כון

kun

To be firm, establish, or set in place.

Mekonah is a place-name shaped by ⁨כון⁩, the root of making firm and establishing. Beside the Hebrew’s “daughters” for its dependent settlements, the verse pictures a settled center whose identity includes the smaller communities joined to it.

ALSO GROWS

konen: To establish, set firm.

כּוֹנֵן

This verb makes the root’s sense of establishing active: a place is more than a name on a list; it is a settled presence.

nakhon: Firm, established, prepared.

נָכוֹן

This form describes what has been set in place, echoing Mekonah’s sense of a stable base.

THE PATTERN

A named center is described together with the surrounding settlements that belong to its inhabited whole.

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

Numbers 21:25 · KJVHeshbon is named alongside its villages, making the center and its surrounding settlements one inhabited whole.

Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

Joshua 15:45 · KJVEkron’s identity in the verse includes the towns and villages gathered around it.

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Matthew 9:35 · KJVThe movement through cities and villages treats both centers and smaller settlements as part of the same lived landscape.

THE THREAD

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalm 40:2 · KJV

Mekonah echoes ⁨כון⁩, the root for establishing and setting firm. Psalm 40 uses that same root for feet and goings made firm, linking a place’s rootedness with a person’s newly secured footing.

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