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Lexicon :: Strong's H168 - 'ōhel

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אֹהֶל
Transliteration
'ōhel
Pronunciation
o'-hel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 32a

Strong’s Definitions

אֹהֶל ʼôhel, o'-hel; from H166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 345x

The KJV translates Strong's H168 in the following manner: tabernacle(s) (198x), tent(s) (141x), dwelling (2x), place(s) (2x), covering (1x), home (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 345x
The KJV translates Strong's H168 in the following manner: tabernacle(s) (198x), tent(s) (141x), dwelling (2x), place(s) (2x), covering (1x), home (1x).

  1. tent

    1. nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience

    2. dwelling, home, habitation

    3. the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֹהֶל ʼôhel, o'-hel; from H166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.
STRONGS H168: Abbreviations
אֹ֫הֶל 343 noun masculineGenesis 13:3 tent (compare Assyrian âlu, above, Arabic اٌَهْل, fellow-dwellers, family, Sabean אהל DHMZMG 1883, 341 and others, also in proper names Sabean & Phoenician see H171 אהליאב) — absolute א׳ Genesis 4:20 +; construct id. Exodus 28:43 +; אֹ֫הֱלָה (ה locative) Genesis 18:6 +; suffix אָהֳלִי Job 29:4 +; אָֽהָלִךָ Psalm 61:5; אָֽהֳלֹה Genesis 9:21 + 3 times (see DrSm xxxv); plural אֹהָלִים Genesis 13:5 + (Ges§ 23. 3); בָֽאֳהָלִים Judges 8:11 +; construct אָהֳלֵי Numbers 16:26 +; suffix אֹהָלַי Jeremiah 4:20; אֹהָלֶיךָ Numbers 24:5 +; אָהֳלֵיכֶם Joshua 22:8 +, etc. —
1. tent of nomad Songs 1:5; Jeremiah 6:3; Jeremiah 49:29; ישֵׁב א׳ dweller in tents Genesis 4:20; Genesis 25:27 (J); אָהֳלֵי מִקְנֶה tents of cattle 2 Chronicles 14:14; of soldier 1 Samuel 17:54 compare Dr, Jeremiah 37:10; 1 Kings 8:66 לְאֹהָלֶיךָ, ישׂראל, exclamation, to thy tents, Israel ! 1 Kings 12:16 (twice in verse) compare 2 Chronicles 10:16; 2 Samuel 20:1 (but compare Dr, 1 Samuel 17:54); of pleasure-tent on house-top 2 Samuel 16:22 (= bridal-tent, bridal pavilion, compare חֻפָּה Psalm 19:5; Joel 2:16 see RSKinship 168).
2. dwelling, habitation; Psalm 91:10 לְאֹהָלֶ֑ךָ home (literally to thy tents, plural) Judges 19:9 (after הלך); א׳ בֵּיתִי habitation of my house Psalm 132:3 compare Daniel 11:45; דוד א׳ habitation or palace of David where throne erected Isaiah 16:5; בַת צִיּוֺן א׳ house of daughter of Zion (= Jerusalem) Lamentations 2:4; אָהֲלֵי יַעֲקֹב Jeremiah 30:18; Malachi 2:12 (|| מִשְׁכָּן); יְהוּדָה א׳ Zechariah 12:7 (|| בית דוד); רְשָׁעִים א׳ h. of wicked Job 8:22, compare רֶשַׁע א׳ Psalm 84:11, יְשָׁרִים א׳ Proverbs 14:11; שֹׁחַד א׳ Job 15:34; צַדִּיקִים א׳ Psalm 118:15; אֱדוֺם א׳ = Edom itself, Psalm 83:7 compare קְדָר א׳ Psalm 120:5 כוּשָׁן א׳ Habakkuk 3:7.
3. the sacred tent used in worship of God; הָאֹהֶל the tent; מוֺעֵד א׳ tent of meeting of God with his people (tent of congregation or assembly Ges MV and others) According to E Moses so called the tent which he used to pitch without the camp, afar off, into which he used to enter, & where God spake with him face to face, Exodus 33:7-11 Numbers 12:5, 10; Deuteronomy 31:14, 15; J seems to have same conception of an מ׳ א׳ outside the camp, Numbers 11:24, 26; D has no allusion to such a tent; P mentions it + 131 times as מ׳ א׳; + 19 times as הָאֹהֶל (compare Ezekiel 41:1) & הָעֵדוּת א׳, tent of the testimony Numbers 9:15; Numbers 17:22; Numbers 17:23; Numbers 18:2 (as containing ark & tables of the testimony) compare 2 Chronicles 24:6; this tent sometimes confounded with the מִשְׁכָּן but distinguished in מ׳ מִשְׁכַּן א׳ Exodus 39:32; Exodus 40:2, 6, 29, compare 1 Chronicles 6:17; הַמִּשְׁכָּן וְהָאֹהֶל Numbers 3:25; אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן וְאֶת־אָהֳלוֺ Exodus 35:11; tent was of three layers of skins, goatskins, ramskins, & tachash skins, each layer of eleven pieces stretched in form of a tent, covering & protecting the מִשְׁכָּן, which was in form of parallelopip. (Exodus 26). An אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד was at Shilo 1 Samuel 2:22 (omitted Greek Version of the LXX; see Dr) compare Psalm 78:60, called יוֺסֵף א׳ Psalm 78:67. The Mosaic מ׳ א׳ was later at Gibeon 2 Chronicles 1:3, 6, 13; courses of ministry arranged for service at מ׳ א׳ 1 Chronicles 6:17; 1 Chronicles 23:32 compare 1 Chronicles 9:19 (הָא׳), 1 Chronicles 9:21; 1 Chronicles 9:23 (בֵּית הָא׳); David erected an אֹהֶל for ark on Mt. Zion 2 Samuel 6:17; 1 Chronicles 15:1; 1 Chronicles 16:1; 2 Chronicles 1:4; Joab fled for refuge to יהוה א׳ 1 Kings 2:28-30; sacred oil brought from הָא׳ 1 Kings 1:39; the מוֺעֵד א׳ was taken up into temple 1 Kings 8:4 2 Chronicles 5:5; י׳ had not previously dwelt in a בַּיִת, but had gone מֵאֹהֶל אֶל־אֹהֶל from tent to tent, from one to another, 1 Chronicles 17:5, compare 2 Samuel 7:6; יהוה א׳ (|| בַּיִת & הַר קֹדֶשׁ) is refuge & dwelling-place of righteous, Psalm 15:1; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 27:6; Psalm 61:5 (compare Psalm 90:1).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:20; 4:20; 9:21; 13:3; 13:5; 18:6; 25:27

Exodus

26; 28:43; 33:7; 33:8; 33:9; 33:10; 33:11; 35:11; 39:32; 40:2; 40:6; 40:29

Numbers

3:25; 9:15; 11:24; 11:26; 12:5; 12:10; 16:26; 18:2; 24:5

Deuteronomy

31:14; 31:15

Joshua

22:8

Judges

8:11; 19:9

1 Samuel

2:22; 17:54; 17:54

2 Samuel

6:17; 7:6; 16:22; 20:1

1 Kings

1:39; 2:28; 2:29; 2:30; 8:4; 8:66; 12:16

1 Chronicles

6:17; 6:17; 9:19; 9:21; 9:23; 15:1; 16:1; 17:5; 23:32

2 Chronicles

1:3; 1:4; 1:6; 1:13; 5:5; 10:16; 14:14; 24:6

Job

8:22; 15:34; 29:4

Psalms

15:1; 19:5; 27:5; 27:6; 61:5; 61:5; 78:60; 78:67; 83:7; 84:11; 90:1; 91:10; 118:15; 120:5; 132:3

Proverbs

14:11

Song of Songs

1:5

Isaiah

16:5

Jeremiah

4:20; 6:3; 30:18; 37:10; 49:29

Lamentations

2:4

Ezekiel

41:1

Daniel

11:45

Joel

2:16

Habakkuk

3:7

Zechariah

12:7

Malachi

2:12

H168

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Strong's Number H168 matches the Hebrew אֹהֶל ('ōhel),
which occurs 348 times in 314 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 7 (Lev 14:23–Num 9:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:23 - “Then the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting, before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - ‘Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before Yahweh to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting and give them to the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - ‘Then on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them in to the priest, to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:7 - “And he shall take the two goats and present them before Yahweh at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16 - “So he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent H168 of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17 - “Now when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, no one shall be in the tent H168 of meeting until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself and for his household and for all the assembly of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:20 -

“And when he finishes making atonement for the holy place and the tent H168 of meeting and the altar, he shall bring near the live goat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:23 -

“Then Aaron shall come into the tent H168 of meeting and take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the holy place and shall leave them there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:33 - and make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent H168 of meeting and for the altar. He shall also make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting to bring it near as an offering to Yahweh before the [fn]tabernacle of Yahweh, it will be counted as bloodguiltiness to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:5 - “[fn]The reason is so that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they were sacrificing in the open field, that they may bring them in to Yahweh, at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:6 - “And the priest shall splash the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting and offer up the fat in smoke as a soothing aroma to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:9 - and does not bring it to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting to [fn]offer it to Yahweh, that man also shall be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:21 - ‘And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - “Outside the veil of testimony in the tent H168 of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

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Then [fn]Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent H168 of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2 - “The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own standard, with the [fn]banners of their fathers’ households; they shall camp around the tent H168 of meeting [fn]at a distance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 -

“Then the tent H168 of meeting shall set out with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - “And they shall keep his responsibility and the responsibility for the whole congregation before the tent H168 of meeting, to perform the service of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - “They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent H168 of meeting, along with the responsibility of the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the [fn]tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - Now the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the tent H168 of meeting involved the tabernacle and the tent H168, its covering, and the screen for the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting,

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Now those who were to camp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent H168 of meeting toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary for the responsibility of the sons of Israel; but the [fn]outsider coming near was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:3 - from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the duty of doing the work in the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:4 - “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent H168 of meeting, concerning the most holy things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them, so that they will not touch the holy objects and die. These are the [fn]things in the tent H168 of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:23 - from thirty years and upward to fifty years old, you shall [fn]number them; all who enter to perform the duty of performing the service in the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:25 - they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent H168 of meeting with its covering and the covering of porpoise skin that is on top of it, and the screen for the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - “This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent H168 of meeting, and their responsibilities shall be [fn]under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:30 - from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the duty of performing the service of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - “Now this is the responsibility of their loads, for all their service in the tent H168 of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its bases,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33 - “This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent H168 of meeting, [fn]under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:35 - from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the duty of service in the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:37 - These are the numbered men of the Kohathite families, everyone who was serving in the tent H168 of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the [fn]commandment of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:39 - from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the duty of service in the tent H168 of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:41 - These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who was serving in the tent H168 of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the [fn]commandment of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:43 - from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the duty of service in the tent H168 of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:47 - from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who could enter to perform the work of service and the service of carrying in the tent H168 of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:10 - ‘Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:13 -

‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his Nazirite vow are fulfilled: he shall bring [fn]the offering to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - ‘The Nazirite shall then shave the head of hair for his Nazirite vow at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting and take the hair of his head of his Nazirite vow and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:5 - “Accept these things from them, that they may be [fn]used in the service of the tent H168 of meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 -

Now when Moses went into the tent H168 of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the [fn]mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, so He spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - “So you shall bring the Levites near before the tent H168 of meeting. You shall also assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - “Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent H168 of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - “And I have given the Levites as [fn]a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel at the tent H168 of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel by [fn]their coming near to the sanctuary.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:22 - Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent H168 of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; just as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - “This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward [fn]they shall enter to perform their duty in the service of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - “They may, however, minister to their brothers in the tent H168 of meeting in order to keep up their responsibility, but they themselves shall perform no service. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their responsibilities.”

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Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent H168 of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17 - Now whenever the cloud would go up from over the tent H168, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

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