Lexical Definition

‎קוֹעַ‎ Qôwaʻ (ko'-ah) Koa N:N--L
probably from ‎קוּץ‎ in the original sense of cutting off; curtailment

Koa.

1) a territory in Mesopotamia, east of the Tigris, on border of Elam and Media

Usage: 2 forms in 2 verses
Form Translated As     In Verse(s)
וְק֔וֹעַ and Koa Ezek.23.23
Κουδέ Koa LXX.Ezek.23.23

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קוֺעַ‎ proper name, of a people named with Babylonian, Chaldean, Assyrian, ‎׳‎‎(פְּקוֺד וְ)שׁוֺעַ וְק‎ Ezek 23:23 Šô±a and †ô±a; identification by DlPa 235 with Assyrian Sutû, Kutû (abbreviated Su (? see ‎שׁוֺעַ‎) and [by inference] Ku), east of Tigris, on border of Elam and Media; compare COTEzek 23:23 DrHast. iii, KOA; but ‎קוֺעַ‎ = Kutû now doubted by WklAltor, Forsch. ii. 2 (1899), 54.

Brown-Driver-Briggs References

Book Refs
Ezekiel 23:23

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Koa • A people group mentioned by Ezekiel

Koa, a people group mentioned by Ezekiel (Ezekiel 23:23).

Koa is mentioned in Ezekiel 23:23 as one of the people groups that would come against Jerusalem in judgment, along with the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, and "all the Assyrians."

All entries for Koa: קוֹעַ