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Strong's #4636: skenos (pronounced skay'-nos)

from 4633; a hut or temporary residence, i.e. (figuratively) the human body (as the abode of the spirit):--tabernacle.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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skēnos

1) a tabernacle, a tent

2) metaphorically of the human body, in which the soul dwells as in a tent, and which is taken down at death

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G4633

Citing in TDNT: 7:381, 1040




Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

2 Corinthians 5:1: "our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of"
2 Corinthians 5:4: "we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that"









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