Tent
קֻבָּהStrong’s H6898qubbah (qub-bah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qubbah is the Hebrew word usually translated “tent”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.”
Meaning
- Large vaulted tent, tent
How it's translated
- the tent 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
קֻבָּה qubbah · tent
large vaulted tent, tent
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.]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.