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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

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

Page 2 / 3 (Exo 40:33–1Ch 16:39)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:33 - He erected the court all around the [fn]tabernacle H4908 and the altar, and he put up the screen for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:34 -

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle H4908.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:35 - And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had dwelt on it, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle H4908.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:36 - Now throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle H4908, the sons of Israel would set out;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:38 - For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle H4908 by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:10 -

Moses then took the anointing oil and anointed the [fn]tabernacle H4908 and all that was in it and set them apart as holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 -

“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by making My [fn]tabernacle H4908 that is among them unclean.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - and has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to bring it near as an offering to Yahweh before the [fn]tabernacle H4908 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 26:11 - ‘Moreover, I will [fn]make My [fn]dwelling H4908 among you, and My soul will not loathe you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - “But you shall appoint the Levites over the [fn]tabernacle H4908 of the testimony and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle H4908 and all its furnishings, and they shall attend to it; they shall also camp around the tabernacle H4908.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - “So when the tabernacle H4908 is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle H4908 encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But the [fn]layman who comes near shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - “But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle H4908 of the testimony so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle H4908 of the testimony.”

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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 of meeting, to perform the service of the tabernacle H4908.

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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 of meeting, along with the responsibility of the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the [fn]tabernacle H4908.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle H4908 westward,

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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 of meeting involved the tabernacle H4908 and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:26 - and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle H4908 and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service [fn]concerning them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The families of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the southward side of the tabernacle H4908,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the leader of the fathers’ households of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the northward side of the tabernacle H4908.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - Now the appointed responsibility of the sons of Merari involved the boards of the tabernacle H4908, its bars, its pillars, its bases, all its equipment, and the service concerning them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 -

Now those who were to camp before the tabernacle H4908 eastward, before the tent 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 BoxNum 4:16 -

“And the assignment of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light and the fragrant incense and the continual grain offering and the anointing oil—the assignment of all the [fn]tabernacle H4908 and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:25 - they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle H4908 and the tent 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 of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26 - and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle H4908 and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service; and all that is to be done, [fn]they shall perform.

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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 of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle H4908 and its bars and its pillars and its bases,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - and the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle H4908 and put it into the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:1 -

Now it happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle H4908, that he anointed it and set it apart as holy with all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and set them apart as holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:3 - And they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, and they brought them near before the tabernacle H4908.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 -

Now on the day that the tabernacle H4908 was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle H4908, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle H4908 until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18 - At the [fn]command of Yahweh the sons of Israel would set out, and at the [fn]command of Yahweh they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle H4908, they remained camped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle H4908 for many days, [fn]the sons of Israel would keep the charge of Yahweh and not set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20 - If [fn]sometimes the cloud remained a few days over the tabernacle H4908, according to the [fn]command of Yahweh they remained camped. Then according to the [fn]command of Yahweh they set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle H4908, dwelling above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 -

Now it happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, that the cloud was lifted from over the [fn]tabernacle H4908 of the testimony;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:17 -

Then the tabernacle H4908 was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle H4908, set out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:21 -

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle H4908 was set up before their arrival.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - is it [fn]not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle H4908 of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:24 - “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get back from around the dwellings H4908 of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:27 - So they got back from around the dwellings H4908 of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; but Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents, along with their wives and their sons and their little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:13 - “Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle H4908 of Yahweh, must die. Are we to breathe our utter last?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - ‘Anyone who touches a corpse, the [fn]body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, [fn]makes the [fn]tabernacle H4908 of Yahweh unclean; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not [fn]splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:5 -

How fair are your tents, O Jacob,

Your dwellings H4908, O Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle H4908 of Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the responsibility of the tabernacle H4908 of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - ‘If, however, the land of your possession is unclean, then [fn]cross into the land of the possession of Yahweh, where the tabernacle H4908 of Yahweh dwells, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us by building an altar for yourselves, besides the altar of Yahweh our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29 - “Far be it from us to rebel against Yahweh and turn away from following Yahweh this day, by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God which is before His [fn]tabernacle H4908.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:6 - “For I have not inhabited a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been going about in a tent, even in a [fn]tabernacle H4908.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:32 - And they ministered with song before the tabernacle H4908 of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem; and they stood for their service according to their custom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:48 -

Their [fn]relatives the Levites were given over unto all the service of the tabernacle H4908 of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - Now he left behind Zadok the priest and his [fn]relatives the priests before the [fn]tabernacle H4908 of Yahweh in the high place, which was at Gibeon,

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