Habitation
מִשְׁכַּןStrong’s H4908mishkan (mish-kan)
Appears in 129 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishkan is the Hebrew word usually translated “tabernacle”, “tabernacle of” and “dwelling place of”. It appears in 129 verses of the Old Testament.
“According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.”
Meaning
- Abode (of God)
How it's translated
- the tabernacle 78
- tabernacle of 20
- for the tabernacle 5
- dwelling place of 4
- dwelling places of 4
- dwelling place my 3
- of the tabernacle 2
- dwelling place your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 55
- Numbers 35
- Psalms 11
- 1 Chronicles 6
- Leviticus 4
- Job 3
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:1Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 26:6And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
- Exodus 26:7And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
- Exodus 26:12And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
- Exodus 26:13And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Exodus 26:15And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
All 129 verses, by book
- Exodus 55
- 25:926:126:626:726:1226:1326:1526:1726:1826:2026:2226:2326:2626:2726:3026:3527:927:1935:1135:1535:1836:836:1336:1436:2036:2236:2336:2536:2736:2836:3136:3238:2038:2138:3139:3239:3339:4040:240:540:640:940:1740:1840:1940:2140:2240:2440:2840:2940:3340:3440:3540:3640:38
- Numbers 35
- 1:501:511:533:73:83:233:253:263:293:353:363:384:164:254:264:315:177:17:39:159:189:199:209:2210:1110:1710:2116:916:2416:2717:1319:1324:531:3031:47
- 2 Samuel 1
- 7:6
- Song of Solomon 1
- 1:8
- Habakkuk 1
- 1:6
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.