Words the Bible translates as tabernacle
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- skēnēσκηνήthe tabernacle: the portable tent-sanctuary where God lived among Israel in the wilderness, and the heavenly sanctuary it stood for
+2 more meanings
- a tent or booth: a temporary shelter of cloth or animal skins that people pitch and later take down
- a dwelling place: an enduring home, above all God's dwelling with his people and the eternal home of the redeemed
- 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
- sukkahסֻכָּהa booth: a temporary shelter woven from leafy branches
- skēnoōσκηνόωto dwell, take up residence (pictured as pitching a tent)
- sokhסֹךְa hidden den: a screen of woven cover that keeps whoever owns it out of sight
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