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Strong's #4908 - מִשְׁכָּן
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- dwelling place, tabernacle
- dwelling-place
- dwellings
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2838) nks (סהכנ ShKN) AC: Dwell CO: Dwelling AB: ?: [from: kx]
V) nks (סהכנ ShKN) - Dwell: To stay or sit in one location. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (131): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Piel) dwell, abide, remain, inhabit, rest, set, continue, dweller, dwelling, habitation - Strongs: H7931 (שָׁכַן), H7932 (שְׁכַן)
Nm) nks (סהכנ ShKN) - I. Dwelling:The place of residence. II. Neighbor:A fellow dweller. KJV (21): habitation, neighbour, inhabitant, thereunto - Strongs: H7933 (שָׁכַן), H7934 (שָׁכֵן)
hm) nksm (מסהכנ MShKN) - Dwelling: The place of residence. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (140): tabernacle, dwelling, habitation, dwellingplace, place, dwell, tent - Strongs: H4907 (מִשְׁכַּן), H4908 (מִשְׁכָּן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 dwelling-place: מִשְׁכַּןקֹֿרַח דָּתָן וַאֲבִירָם; Numbers 16:24,27 (P) [but here originally ׳מִשְׁכַּן י; see Commentaries]; in poetry = tomb, Isaiah 22:16.
2 elsewhere in singular always of abode of׳י:
a. in General, of temple, ׳קְדשׁ מ Isaiah 46:5; מִשְׁכַּן כְּבוֺדֶ֑ךָ Isaiah 26:8; שְׁמֶ֑ךָ׳מ Isaiah 74:7.
b. מִשְׁכַּן שִׁלוֺ Isaiah 78:60.
c.׳הַמּ in P, of ׳י s 'dwelling' ( Exodus 25:9 RVm; rendered conventionally 'tabernacle'), of planks lined with vari-coloured tapestry, with a 'tent' (אֹהֶל) over it, filled with ׳כְּבוֺד י Exodus 40:34,35; over it cloud שׁכן Numbers 9:18,22 (during the wanderings); its plan given by ׳י Exodus 25:9; Exodus 26:30; distinguished from אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד the 'tent' over it (compare אֹהֶל 3), Exodus 26:7,12,13; Exodus 36:14; Exodus 40:19; ׳מִשְׁכַּן י Leviticus 17:4 (H), Numbers 16:9; Numbers 17:28; Numbers 19:13; Numbers 31:30,47; Joshua 22:19 (see also 1), 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:5; 29:6; הָעֵדֻת׳מ Exodus 38:21; Numbers 1:50,53 (twice in verse); Numbers 10:11; אהל מועד׳מ Exodus 39:32; Exodus 40:2,6,29; 1 Chronicles 6:17, מִשְׁכַּן בֵּית הָאֱלֹהִים v. 1 Chronicles 6:23, compare נָשָׂא אֶתהַֿמִּשְׁכָּן 1 Chronicles 23:26; compare מִשְׁכָּן (probably gloss on אהל), 2 Samuel 7:6 "" 1 Chronicles 17:5, + 76t. P.
3 plural מִשְׁכָּנוֺת, dwellings (only in poetry):
a. of Israel, Numbers 24:5 (poem; "" אהלים), Jeremiah 30:18; Isaiah 54:2 4t.; of other nations Jeremiah 51:30; Habakkuk 1:6, compare Ezekiel 25:4 (see above); עַוָּל׳מ Job 18:21; רשׁעים׳מ Job 21:28; of wild ass Job 39:6("" בית); shepherds Song of Solomon 1:8; = tomb Psalm 49:12 (compare 1).
b. God's abode in Zion Ezekiel 37:27; Psalm 132:5; Psalm 132:7, compare Psalm 43:3; Psalm 84:2 ("" ׳חַצְרוֺת י).
[שְׁכֵן compare ᵑ7] verb dwell (Biblical Hebrew שָׁכַן, מִשְׁכָּן); —
Pe`al Imperfect 3 feminine plural יִשְׁכְּנָן Daniel 4:18 dwell, of birds, ב location
Pa`el causative: Perfect 3 masculine singular שַׁכִּן שְׁמֵהּתַּמָּה Ezra 6:12, of God, cause his name to dwell there.
מִשְׁכָּן m. (from the root שָׁכַז pl. ־ִים Psalms 46:5 more often in ־וֹת construed with a fem. Psalms 84:2)
(1) habitation, dwelling place, as of men, Job 18:21; Psalms 87:2. (once used of the long home, the sepulchre, Isaiah 22:16 compare 14:18, and my note on the passage); of animals, i.e. den, Job 39:6 of God, i.e. temple, Psalms 46:5, 84:2 132:5.
(2) specially a tent, a tabernacle, Song of Solomon 1:8, especially the holy tabernacle of the Israelites, Exodus 25:9, 26:1, seq.; 40:9, seq.; fully מִשְׁכַּן הָעֵדוּת “the tabernacle of the testimony,” Exodus 38:21; Numbers 1:50, 53 10:11. In the description of this tent, as to the difference of מִשְׁכָּן from אֹהֶל see above at that word, p. 17, A hence מִשְׁכַּז אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד of the boards of the holy tent, over which the curtains were hung, Exodus 39:32, 40:2, Exodus 40:6, 29 Exodus 40:29.