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Tent

אֹ֫הֶלStrong’s H0168

ohel (o-hel)

Appears in 314 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ohel is the Hebrew word usually translated “tent of”, “tent” and “tent his”. It appears in 314 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
Daniel 11:45 KJV
Meaning
  1. Tentnomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience · dwelling, home, habitation · the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)
How it's translated
  • tent of 117
  • the tent 41
  • in tent of 35
  • tent his 13
  • tents of 9
  • to tents his 8
  • the tent towards 7
  • in tent his 7

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

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 70
  • Exodus 54
  • Leviticus 42
  • Genesis 19
  • Psalms 18
  • Job 14

26 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 314 verses, by book
Proverbs 1
14:11
Song of Solomon 1
1:5
Lamentations 1
2:4
Ezekiel 1
41:1
Daniel 1
11:45
Hosea 2
9:612:9
Habakkuk 1
3:7
Zechariah 1
12:7
Malachi 1
2:12
Hebrew dictionary

אֹ֫הֶל ohel · tent

: tent 1) tent 1a) nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience 1b) dwelling, home, habitation 1c) the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle) Also means: o.hel (אֹ֫הֶל ": home" H0168H)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.