painted; inconstant
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
NEKODA.1. Eponym of a family of Nethinim (Ezr_2:48 = Neh_7:60); called in 1Es_5:31 Noeba. 2. Name of a family which returned from the Exile, but were unable to prove their Israelitish descent (Ezr_2:60 = Neh_7:62); called in 1Es_5:37 Nekodan.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ezr_2:48; Ezr_2:60-62.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Neko'da. (distinguished).
1. The descendants of Nekoda, who returned among the Nethinim, after the captivity. Ezr_2:48; Neh_7:50.
2. The sons of Nekoda were among those, who went up after the captivity from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, and other places, but were unable to prove their descent from Israel. Ezr_2:60; Neh_7:62.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
nḗ-kō?da (נקודא, neḳōdhā'):
(1) Head of a family of Nethinim (Ezr_2:48; Neh_7:50; compare 1 Esdras 5:31).
(2) Head of a family which failed to prove its Israelite descent (Ezr_2:60; Neh_7:62; compare 1 Esdras 5:31, 37). In the parallel verses of 1 Esdras the names are given thus: NOEBA and NEKODAN (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Nekoda
(Heb. Nekoda', נְקוֹדָא, distinguished; Sept. Νεκωδά, v.r. Νεχωδά and Νεκωδάν), the head of a family of the "Temple servants" who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezr_2:48; Neh_7:50). B.C. 535. A man of the same name is mentioned in Ezr_2:60; Neh_7:62, as the progenitor of certain persons who on the return from Babylon had lost their pedigree, from which it would seem that they claimed to be Israelites; but as the Nethinim are mentioned immediately before, and neither of the associated names occurs again, we may presume that they were finally determined to be descendants of the above-named non-Israelite (see Keil, ad loc.). SEE NETHINIM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.