Words the Bible translates as tent
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- skēnēσκηνήa tent or booth: a temporary shelter of cloth or animal skins that people pitch and later take down
+2 more meanings
- the tabernacle: the portable tent-sanctuary where God lived among Israel in the wilderness, and the heavenly sanctuary it stood for
- 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
- skēnōmaσκήνωμαtentnot studied yet
- yeri'ahיְרִיעָהa tent-cloth: a single woven panel of fabric joined with others to roof or wall a tent
- skēnosσκῆνοςtentnot studied yet
- qubbahקֻבָּהtentnot studied yet
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