Meconah

Meconah (also spelled Mekonah) appears once in Scripture in Nehemiah's catalog of the post-exile resettlement of Judah: "And the children of Judah... at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof, And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth, Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages" (Nehemiah 11:25-30). The town lay in the western Negev between Ziklag and En-rimmon, repopulated after the Persian-era return under Zerubbabel and Jeshua. Meconah was one of dozens of small Judean settlements that the post-exile community reclaimed to fulfill the prophetic promise of return — though many lay outside the official boundaries of the small Persian-era province of Yehud.