Habitation
מִשְׁכַּןStrong’s H4907mishkan (mish-kan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mishkan is the Aramaic word usually translated “abode his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,”
Meaning
- Abode (of God)
How it's translated
- abode his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
מִשְׁכַּן mishkan · habitation
abode (of God) Aramaic of mish.kan (מִשְׁכָּן "tabernacle" H4908)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “habitation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HABITA'TION, noun
[Latin habitatio, from habito, to dwell, from habeo, to hold, or as we say in English, to keep.
- Act of inhabiting; state of dwelling.
- Place of abode; a settled dwelling; a mansion; a house or other place in which man or any animal dwells.“The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just” Proverbs 3:33
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.