Hebrew word · H5225
נָכוֹן
nakhon
Nacon
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.
What it means
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at 2Sa.6.6;
son of: Serug (H8286);
father of: Terah (H8646); also called Chidon (NIV: Kidon) at 1Ch.13.9;
Also named: ki.don (כִּידֹן "Chidon" H3592)
§ Nachon = "prepared"
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
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Similar words
Where it appears
2 Samuel · 1
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2 Samuel 6:6 נָכ֑וֹן Nacon
When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.
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