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Lexicon :: Strong's H4908 - miškān

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מִשְׁכָּן
Transliteration
miškān
Pronunciation
mish-kawn'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2387c

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁכָּן mishkân, mish-kawn'; from H7931; a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls):—dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 139x

The KJV translates Strong's H4908 in the following manner: tabernacle (119x), dwelling (9x), habitation (5x), dwellingplaces (3x), place (1x), dwelleth (1x), tents (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 139x
The KJV translates Strong's H4908 in the following manner: tabernacle (119x), dwelling (9x), habitation (5x), dwellingplaces (3x), place (1x), dwelleth (1x), tents (1x).

  1. dwelling place, tabernacle

    1. dwelling-place

    2. dwellings

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁכָּן mishkân, mish-kawn'; from H7931; a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls):—dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.
STRONGS H4908: Abbreviations
מִשְׁכָּן 139 noun masculine Exodus 26:6 dwelling-place, 'tabernacle'; — מ׳ Exodus 25:9 +; construct מִשְׁכַּן Exodus 38:21 +, etc.; plural construct מִשְׁכְּנֵי Ex 46:6 (Greek Version of the LXX Bae Du מִשְׁכָּנוֺ, < מִשְׁכַּן י׳); suffix מִשְׁכְּנֵיהֶם Ezekiel 25:4 (< משׁכנתיהם, || טִירוֺתֵיהֶם), מִשְׁכָּנוֺת Habakkuk 1:6; Psalm 132:5; construct מִשׁכְּנוֺת Psalm 87:2 +, etc.; —
†1. dwelling-place: מִשְׁכַּןקֹֿרַח דָּתָן וַאֲבִירָם; Numbers 16:24, 27 (P) [but here originally מִשְׁכַּן י׳; see Commentaries]; in poetry = tomb, Isaiah 22:16.
2. elsewhere in singular always of abode of י׳:
†a. in general, of temple, קְדשׁ מ׳ Isaiah 46:5; מִשְׁכַּן כְּבוֺדֶ֑ךָ Isaiah 26:8; שְׁמֶ֑ךָ מ׳ Psalm 74:7.
b. מִשְׁכַּן שִׁלוֺ Psalm 78:60.
c. הַמּ׳ in P, of י׳'s 'dwelling' (Exodus 25:9 RVm; rendered conventionally 'tabernacle'), of planks lined with vari-coloured tapestry, with a 'tent' (אֹהֶל) over it, filled with כְּבוֺד י׳ Exodus 40:34, 35; over it cloud שׁכן Numbers 9:18, 22 (during the wanderings); its plan given by י׳ Exodus 25:9; Exodus 26:30; distinguished from אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד the 'tent' over it (compare אֹהֶל 3), Exodus 26:7, 12, 13; Exodus 36:14; Exodus 40:19; מִשְׁכַּן י׳ Leviticus 17:4 (H), Numbers 16:9; Numbers 17:28; Numbers 19:13; Numbers 31:30, 47; Joshua 22:19 (see also 1), 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:5; 29:6; הָעֵדֻת מ׳ Exodus 38:21; Numbers 1:50, 53 (twice in verse); Numbers 10:11; אהל מועד מ׳ Exodus 39:32; Exodus 40:2, 6, 29; 1 Chronicles 6:17, מִשְׁכַּן בֵּית הָאֱלֹהִים 1 Chronicles 6:23, compare נָשָׂא אֶתהַֿמִּשְׁכָּן 1 Chronicles 23:26; compare מִשְׁכָּן (probably gloss on אהל), 2 Samuel 7:6 || 1 Chronicles 17:5, + 76 times P.
3. plural מִשְׁכָּנוֺת, dwellings (only in poetry):
a. of Israel, Numbers 24:5 (poem; || אהלים), Jeremiah 30:18; Isaiah 54:2 + 4 times; of other nations Jeremiah 51:30; Habakkuk 1:6, compare Ezekiel 25:4 (see above); עַוָּל מ׳ Job 18:21; רשׁעים מ׳ Job 21:28; of wild ass Job 39:6(|| בית); shepherds Songs 1:8; = tomb Psalm 49:12 (compare 1).
b. God's abode in Zion Ezekiel 37:27; Psalm 132:5; Psalm 132:7, compare Psalm 43:3; Psalm 84:2 (|| חַצְרוֺת י׳).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7932.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

25:9; 25:9; 25:9; 26:6; 26:7; 26:12; 26:13; 26:30; 36:14; 38:21; 38:21; 39:32; 40:2; 40:6; 40:19; 40:29; 40:34; 40:35

Leviticus

17:4

Numbers

1:50; 1:53; 9:18; 9:22; 10:11; 16:9; 16:24; 16:27; 19:13; 24:5; 31:30; 31:47

Joshua

22:19

2 Samuel

7:6

1 Chronicles

6:17; 6:23; 16:39; 17:5; 21:29; 23:26

2 Chronicles

1:5; 29:6

Job

18:21; 21:28; 39:6

Psalms

43:3; 49:12; 74:7; 78:60; 84:2; 87:2; 132:5; 132:5; 132:7

Song of Songs

1:8

Isaiah

22:16; 26:8; 46:5; 54:2

Jeremiah

30:18; 51:30

Ezekiel

25:4; 25:4; 37:27

Habakkuk

1:6; 1:6

H4908

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4908 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁכָּן (miškān),
which occurs 139 times in 129 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 25:9–Exo 40:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:9 - “You shall construct it in accordance with everything that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture.

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“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle (sacred tent of worship) with ten [interior] curtains of fine twisted linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet fabric; you shall make them with [embroidered] cherubim, the handwork of a skillful craftsman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:6 - “You shall make fifty gold hooks, and fasten the curtains together with the hooks; and the tabernacle shall be one unit.

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“Then you shall make [exterior] curtains of goats’ hair as a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:12 - “The overlapping part that is left over from the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:13 - “The cubit on one side and the cubit on the other, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent shall lap over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and the other side, to cover it.

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“Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright [as a trellis-like frame].

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:17 - “Make two dovetails in each board for fitting [them] together; you shall do the same for all the tabernacle boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle [in the following quantities]: twenty boards for the south side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - for the north side of the tabernacle there shall be twenty boards,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - “For the back or west side of the tabernacle you shall make six boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:23 - “Make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear [on both sides].

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:26 -

“Then you shall make [fifteen] bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27 - and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the rear end of the tabernacle, for the back wall toward the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:30 - “You shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan [the direction corresponding to its meaning and purpose] which has been shown to you on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35 - “You shall set the table [for the bread] outside the veil [in the Holy Place] on the north side, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 -

“You shall make the court of the tabernacle. The south side of the court is to have curtains of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - “All the tabernacle’s utensils and instruments used in all its service, and all its stakes, and all the stakes for the court, shall be of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:11 - the tabernacle (sacred dwelling of God), its tent and its covering, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:15 - and the altar of incense and its carrying poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, the screen (curtain) for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:18 - the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court and their cords;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 -

All the skilled men among them who were doing the work on the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, with cherubim [worked into them], the work of an embroiderer, Bezalel made them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:13 - He made fifty gold hooks and joined the curtains together with the hooks, so that the tabernacle became a unit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14 -

Then he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:20 -

Bezalel made boards of acacia wood for the upright framework of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:22 - Each board had two tenons (dovetails), fitted to one another; he did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23 - And [this is how] he made the boards [for frames] for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25 - For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27 - And for the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six [frame] boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:28 - And he made two boards for each corner of the tabernacle in the rear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:31 -

Bezalel made bars of acacia wood, five for the [frame] boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:32 - and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle’s other side, and five bars for the boards at the rear side to the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20 - All the pegs for the tabernacle and the court were bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 -

This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as counted according to the command of Moses, for the work of the Levites, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:31 - and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs around the court.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 -

Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished; and the Israelites did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; that is what they did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:33 - They brought the tabernacle to Moses [for him to inspect]: the tent and all its furnishings, its hooks, its [frame] boards, its bars, its support poles, its sockets or bases;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:40

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40 - the curtains of the courtyard, its support poles and sockets, and the screen (curtain) for the courtyard gate, its cords and pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting [of God with His people];

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - “On the first day of the first month (Abib) you shall set up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting [of God with you].

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - “You shall set the golden altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony [outside the veil], and put the [hanging] veil at the doorway of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - “You shall set the [bronze] altar of burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:9 - “Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture; and it shall be holy (declared sacred, separated from secular use).

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:17 -

Now it happened on the first day of the first month (Abib) in the second year [after the exodus from Egypt], that the tabernacle was erected.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18 - Moses erected the tabernacle, laid its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars and erected its support poles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:19 - He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21 - Moses brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up a veil (partition) for the screen (curtain), and screened off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - Then he put the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - Then he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:28 - Then he set up the screen (curtain) at the doorway of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:29 - He set the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD commanded him.

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