Lexicon skénóma: a tent Original Word: σκήνωμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: skénóma Phonetic Spelling: (skay'-no-mah) Short Definition: a dwelling Definition: a tent pitched, a dwelling, tabernacle. HELPS word-Studies 4638 skḗnōma – properly, a pitched tent ("tabernacle," Ac 7:46); (figuratively) the physical body, serving as God's vehicle (dwelling place) – i.e. as believers live as sojourner-travelers ("pilgrims") with the Lord in this life, through faith (2 Pet 1:13,14). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom skénoóDefinitiona tent NASB Translationdwelling (2), dwelling place (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4638: σκήνωμασκήνωμα, σκηνώματος, τό ( σκηνόω), a tent, tabernacle: of the temple as God's habitation, Acts 7:46 ( Psalm 14:1 (); Psalm 25:8 (); Psalm 42:3 (); Psalm 45:5 (); Pausanias, 3, 17, 6; of the tabernacle of the covenant, 1 Kings 2:28); metaphorically, of the human body as the dwelling of the soul (see σκῆνος): ἐν τῷ σκηνώματι εἶναι, of life on earth, 2 Peter 1:15; ἀπόθεσις (the author blending the conceptions of a tent and of a covering or garment, as Paul does in 2 Corinthians 5:2), ibid. 14. (Euripides, Xenophon, Plutarch, others; the Sept. for אֹהֶל and מִשְׁכָן.)
Strong's tabernacle. From skenoo; an encampment, i.e. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as a tenement for the soul) -- tabernacle. see GREEK skenoo |
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