a foot of a pillar; provision
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MEKONAH (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ; RV [Note: Revised Version.] needlessly changes to Meconah),A town inhabited after the Captivity (Neh_11:28). The site has not been identified.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("base".) A town with daughter villages, reinhabited after the captivity by men of Judah (Neh_11:28). Coupled with Ziklag which was in the far S.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mek'onah. (foundation). One of the towns which were reinhabited, after the captivity by the men of Judah. Neh_11:28.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mḗ-kō?na (מכנה, mekhōnāh). See MECONAH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Mekonah
(Hebrews Mekonah', מֲכֹנָה, a base, as in 1Ki_7:27, etc.; Sept. in most editions omits, but v. r. Μαχνά and Μαβνή , Vulg. Mochona), a town in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, and inhabited after the exile (Neh_11:28). From its being coupled (in that passage) with Ziklag,we should infer that it was situated far to the south, while the mention of the daughter towns (בְּנוֹת, AV. villages) dependent on it, seem to show that it was a place of some magnitude. Reland (Palest. p. 892) thinks it may be identical with Mechanum, a village located by Jerome between Eleutheropolis and Jerusalem, eight miles from the former (Onomast. s.v. Bethmacha). It seems strange that Jerome should speak of a village south of Jerusalem when describing Beth-maachah, which lay at the northern extremity of Palestine (2Sa_20:14). The only unappropriated site at about the required distance is Jerash, not far north- east of Beit Nettif (Robinson, Researches, 2:342, note).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.