Koa

Ko’a. (he-camel). Koa is a word which occurs only in Eze 23:23. It may perhaps have been a city or district of Babylonia; or it may be a common noun, signifying "prince" or "nobleman".

Eze 23:23. Pekoa’) ("visitation") and Shod ("rich") and Ken ("noble".) Babylon is the land of visitation; actively, visiting with judgment Judah; passively, to be visited with judgment (Jer 50:21). Margin, "rich and noble" in her prosperity above all kingdoms. Maurer explains, "the Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans (Pekowd), prefects (Shoa and Koa), rich," etc.

[Ko’a]

An unknown people or district classed with those whom Jerusalem had courted as lovers, but who would be its oppressors. Eze 23:23. The Vulgate does not treat it as a proper name, but translates it principes , ’noblemen.’

KOA.—A people associated with Pekod and Shoa (Eze 23:23), probably, therefore, a by-form of Kutû (also Gutium), often mentioned in Assyr. [Note: Assyrian.] inscriptions in the same company. Their seat lay N.E. of Babylonia, in the mountains between the upper Adhem and the Dijâlâ. Cf. Kir.

C. H. W. Johns.

kō´a (קוע, ḳō^a‛): A people named with Pekod and Shoa as enemies of Jerusalem (Eze 23:23). Their location was probably Northeast of Babylonia.