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Tent

σκήνωμαStrong’s G4638

skēnōma

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Skēnōma is the Greek word usually translated “tabernacle” and “dwelling place”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;”
2 Peter 1:13 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “tabernacle” and “dwelling place”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • tabernacle 2
  • a dwelling place 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Peter 2
  • Acts 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

σκήνωμα skēnōma · tent

σκήνωμα, -τος, τό (σκηνόω), [in LXX chiefly for אֹהֶל ;] a tent, tabernacle (cf. σκηνή, σκῆνος): of the temple as God's dwelling (Psa.132:5, al.), Act.7:46. Metaphorical, of the body: 2Pe.1:13-14.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “tent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TENT, noun

[Latin tentorium, from tendo, to stretch.]

  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of canvas or other coarse cloth, stretched and sustained by poles; used for sheltering persons from the weather, particularly soldiers in camp.
  2. In surgery, a roll of lint or linen, used to dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the healing of an opening from which matter or other fluid is discharged.
All definitions and other forms of “tent”

    TENT, noun

    [Latin tinctus.]

    A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

      TENT, verb intransitive

      To lodge as in a tent; to tabernacle.

        TENT, verb transitive

        To probe; to search as with a tent; as, to tent a wound.

        1. To keep open with a tent

        Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

        Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.