Words the Bible translates as dwelling
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- skēnēσκηνήa dwelling place: an enduring home, above all God's dwelling with his people and the eternal home of the redeemed
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- a tent or booth: a temporary shelter of cloth or animal skins that people pitch and later take down
- the tabernacle: the portable tent-sanctuary where God lived among Israel in the wilderness, and the heavenly sanctuary it stood for
- ohelאֹהֶלa tent: the portable cloth-and-pole dwelling of a roaming people, by extension the household it shelters or the worship-tent where God met Israel
- mishkanמִשְׁכָּןa dwelling place: where someone or something resides, most often the LORD's tent-sanctuary in the wilderness
- moshavמוֹשָׁבa place where someone sits or lives: a seat, a settlement, or the act of dwelling there
- katoikiaκατοικίαdwellingnot studied yet
- navehנָוֶהa settled place of rest: the shepherd's pasture and fold, and by extension the secure home of people or of God
- katoikēsisκατοίκησιςdwellingnot studied yet
- magurמָגוֹרliving somewhere as an outsider: the place a person stays without owning it, or the stretch of life spent that way
- medorמְדוֹרdwellingnot studied yet
- oikētērionοἰκητήριονdwellingnot studied yet
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