a dwelling place: where someone or something resides, most often the LORD's tent-sanctuary in the wilderness
The word names the place where someone settles down and lives. It is built straight off the verb "to dwell," so at root it means simply "a residence," and it stretches from the grandest case to the humblest: the tent where God chose to live among Israel, the tents and homes of people and even animals, and by extension the place where the dead finally lie.
By far its most common use is technical. From Exodus through Numbers it is the standard name for the portable sanctuary God told Moses to build, usually translated "tabernacle" but meaning literally "the dwelling," because it was the structure in which the LORD came to live in the middle of the camp. That heavy concentration in the law and the wilderness narratives is what makes the word feel like a temple term, but the underlying idea never changes.
The same word is used for ordinary dwellings, the tents of Jacob, the lairs of wild creatures, the homes of nations and of the wicked, and in poetry it carries a warmth or a threat depending on whose dwelling is in view. In a few places it points to the grave as a person's last and permanent home.
Because the core sense ("a place to dwell") holds across all of these, this is one word with one meaning whose senses differ only by who lives there, not a set of unrelated words.