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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
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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 - And thou shalt make for me according to all things which I shew thee in the mountain; even the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its furniture: so shalt thou make it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1 - And thou shalt make the tabernacle, ten curtains of fine linen spun, and blue and purple, and scarlet spun with cherubs; thou shalt make them with work of a weaver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:6 - And thou shalt make fifty golden rings; and thou shalt join the curtains to each other with the rings, and it shall be one tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7 - And thou shalt make for a covering of the tabernacle skins with the hair on, thou shalt make them eleven skins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:12 - And thou shalt fix at the end that which is over in the skins of the tabernacle; the half of the skin that is left shalt thou fold over, according to the overplus of the skins of the tabernacle; thou shalt fold it over behind the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:13 - A cubit on this side, and a cubit on that side of that which remains of the skins, of the length of the skins of the tabernacle: it shall be folding over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and that side, that it may cover it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:15 - And thou shalt make the posts of the tabernacle of incorruptible wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:17 - Two joints shalt thou make in one post, answering the one to the other: so shalt thou do to all the posts of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - And thou shalt make posts to the tabernacle, twenty posts on the north side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - And for the next side, toward the south, twenty posts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - And on the back of the tabernacle at the part which is toward the west thou shalt make six posts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:23 - And thou shalt make two posts on the corners of the tabernacle behind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:26 - And thou shalt make bars of incorruptible wood; five to one post on one side of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27 - and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:30 - And thou shalt set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shewed thee in the mount.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35 - And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, and the candlestick opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle; and thou shalt put the table on the north side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - And thou shalt make a court for the tabernacle, curtains of the court of fine linen spun on the south side, the length of a hundred cubits for one side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court shall be of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:11 - The tabernacle, and the cords, and the coverings, and the rings, and the bars, and the posts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 - (LXX 37:1) And they made ten curtains for the tabernacle;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20 - (LXX 38:21) He made the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - (LXX 37:19) And this was the [fn]construction of the tabernacle of witness, accordingly as it was appointed to Moses; so that the public service should belong to the Levites, through Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:31 - (LXX 39:8) and they made of it the bases of the door of the tabernacle of witness, (39:9) and the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the gate of the court, and the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court round about;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 - (LXX 39:10) and the brazen appendage of the altar, and all the vessels of the altar, and all the instruments of the tabernacle of witness. (39:11) And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. (39:12) And of the gold that remained of the offering they made vessels to minister with before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:33 - (LXX 39:13) And the blue that was left, and the purple, and the scarlet they made into garments of ministry for Aaron, so that he should minister with them in the sanctuary;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40 - (LXX 39:21) and all the vessels of the tabernacle and all its instruments: and the skins, even rams' skins dyed red, and the blue coverings, and the coverings of the other things, and the pins, and all the instruments for the works of the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - On the first day of the first month, at the new moon, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of witness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - And thou shalt place the golden altar, to burn incense before the ark; and thou shalt put a covering of a veil on the door of the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - And thou shalt put the altar of burnt-offerings by the doors of the tabernacle of witness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:9 - And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and shalt anoint the tabernacle, and all things in it; and shalt sanctify it, and all its furniture, and it shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:17 - And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year after their going forth out of Egypt, at the new moon, that the tabernacle was set up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18 - And Moses set up the tabernacle, and put on the chapiters, and put the bars into their places, and set up the posts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:19 - And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21 - And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and put on it the covering of the veil, and covered the ark of the testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness, on the north side without the veil of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - And he put the candlestick into the tabernacle of witness, on the side of the tabernacle toward the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:29 - And he put the altar of the burnt-offerings by the doors of the tabernacle.

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