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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).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 44 times in 42 verses in 'Lev' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:1 - Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent H168 of meeting, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:3 - ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer it, a male without defect; he shall offer it at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:5 - ‘He shall slay the [fn]young bull before the LORD; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall offer up the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2 - ‘He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slay it at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8 - and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slay it before the tent H168 of meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13 - and he shall lay his hand on its head and slay it before the tent H168 of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - ‘He shall bring the bull to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting before the LORD, and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and slay the bull before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:5 - ‘Then the anointed priest is to take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent H168 of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:7 - ‘The priest shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense which is before the LORD in the tent H168 of meeting; and all the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:14 - when the sin [fn]which they have [fn]committed becomes known, then the assembly shall offer a [fn]bull of the herd for a sin offering and bring it before the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:16 - ‘Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent H168 of meeting;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:18 - ‘He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD [fn]in the tent H168 of meeting; and all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:16 - ‘What is left of it Aaron and his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the court of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:26 - ‘The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:30 - ‘But no sin offering of which any of the blood is brought into the tent H168 of meeting to make atonement in the holy place shall be eaten; it shall be burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:3 - and assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:4 - So Moses did just as the LORD commanded him. When the congregation was assembled at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:31 - Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting, and eat it there together with the bread which is in the basket of the ordination offering, just as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:33 - “You shall not go outside the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will [fn]ordain you through seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35 - “At the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting, moreover, you shall remain day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the LORD, so that you will not die, for so I have been commanded.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:5 - So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent H168 of meeting, and the whole congregation came near and stood before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:23 - Moses and Aaron went into the tent H168 of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:7 - “You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting, or you will die; for the LORD’S anointing oil is upon you.” So they did according to the word of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - “Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent H168 of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations—

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:6 - ‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - “The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent H168 for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:11 - and the priest who pronounces him clean shall present the man to be cleansed and the [fn]aforesaid before the LORD at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:23

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 the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29

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 BoxLev 16:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16 - “He shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the impurities 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 impurities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17 - “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

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:20 - “When he finishes atoning for the holy place and the tent H168 of meeting and the altar, he shall offer the live goat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:23

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

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 BoxLev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before the [fn]tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguiltiness is to be reckoned 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

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 the LORD, at the doorway of the tent H168 of meeting to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:21

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 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 the LORD continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
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