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Lexicon :: Strong's G4638 - skēnōma

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σκήνωμα
Transliteration
skēnōma (Key)
Pronunciation
skay'-no-mah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:383,1040

Strong’s Definitions

σκήνωμα skḗnōma, skay'-no-mah; from G4637; an encampment, i.e. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as a tenement for the soul):—tabernacle.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G4638 in the following manner: tabernacle (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G4638 in the following manner: tabernacle (3x).

  1. a tent, a tabernacle

    1. of the temple as God's habitation

    2. of the tabernacle of the covenant

    3. metaph. of the human body as the dwelling of the soul

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σκήνωμα skḗnōma, skay'-no-mah; from G4637; an encampment, i.e. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as a tenement for the soul):—tabernacle.
STRONGS G4638:
σκήνωμα, σκηνώματος, τό (σκηνόω), a tent, tabernacle: of the temple as God's habitation, Acts 7:46 (Psalm 14:1 (Ps. 15:1); Psalm 25:8 (Ps. 26:8); Psalm 42:3 (Ps. 43:3); Psalm 45:5 (Ps. 46:5); Pausanias, 3, 17, 6; of the tabernacle of the covenant, 1 Kings 2:28); metaphorically, of the human body as the dwelling of the soul (see σκῆνος): ἐν τῷ σκηνώματι εἶναι, of life on earth, 2 Peter 1:15; ἀπόθεσις (the author blending the conceptions of a tent and of a covering or garment, as Paul does in 2 Corinthians 5:2), ibid. 14. (Euripides, Xenophon, Plutarch, others; the Sept. for אֹהֶל and מִשְׁכָן.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
2:28
Psalms
14:1; 15:1; 25:8; 26:8; 42:3; 43:3; 45:5; 46:5
Acts
7:46
2 Corinthians
5:2
2 Peter
1:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4638 matches the Greek σκήνωμα (skēnōma),
which occurs 67 times in 64 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 2 / 2 (Psa 132:3–Mal 2:12)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:3 - “I will not enter my house
or get into my bed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:5 - until I find a place for the LORD,
a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:7 - “Let us go to his dwelling place;
let us worship at his footstool!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:5 - She
I am very dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.

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If you do not know,
O most beautiful among women,
follow in the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
beside the shepherds’ tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:19 - For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:30 - The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting;
they remain in their strongholds;
their strength has failed;
they have become women;
her dwellings are on fire;
her bars are broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 - He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins his meeting place;
the LORD has made Zion forget
festival and Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4 - therefore behold, I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:6 - For behold, they are going away from destruction;
but Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;
thorns shall be in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6 - For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth,
to seize dwellings not their own.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 - I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:7 - “And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:12 - May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant[fn] of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!

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