Reference: Koa
Easton
he-camel, occurs only in Eze 23:23, some province or place in the Babylonian empire, used in this passage along with Shoa (q.v.).
Fausets
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.
Hastings
A people associated with Pekod and Shoa (Eze 23:23), probably, therefore, a by-form of Kut
Morish
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.'
Smith
Ko'a
(he-camel) is a word which occurs only in
It may perhaps have been a city or district of Babylonia; or it may be a common noun, signifying "prince" or "nobleman."