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Strong's #4638: skenoma (pronounced skay'-no-mah)

from 4637; an encampment, i.e. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as a tenement for the soul):-- tabernacle.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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skēnōma

1) a tent, a tabernacle

1a) of the temple as God' s habitation

1b) of the tabernacle of the covenant

1c) metaphorically of the human body as the dwelling of the soul

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G4637

Citing in TDNT: 7:383, 1040




Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Acts 7:46: "and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob."
2 Peter 1:13: "as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;"
2 Peter 1:14: "I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord"









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