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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #4636 - σκῆνος

Transliteration

skēnos

Phonetics

skay'-nos

Origin

from (G4633)

Parts of Speech

neuter noun

TDNT

7:381,1040

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

a tabernacle, a tent
metaph. of the human body, in which the soul dwells as in a tent, and which is taken down at death

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (2)

2 Corinthians 2

BSB (2)

2 Corinthians 2

CSB (1)

2 Corinthians 1

ESV (2)

2 Corinthians 2

KJV (2)

2 Corinthians 2

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

2 Corinthians 2

N95 (2)

2 Corinthians 2

NAS (2)

2 Corinthians 2

NLT (3)

2 Corinthians 4

WEB (2)

2 Corinthians 2

YLT (2)

2 Corinthians 2

ASV (2)

our tabernacle 1

this tabernacle 1

BSB (2)

tent 2

CSB (1)

tent 1

ESV (2)

tent 2

KJV (2)

tabernacle 2

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

tent 2

N95 (2)

tent 2

NAS (2)

tent 2

NLT (3)

bodies 2

tent 1

WEB (2)

our tent 1

this tent 1

YLT (2)

tabernacle 2

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

ANT

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

BEZ

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

BGB

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

BMT

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

BYZ

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

ELZ

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

NA26

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

SBL

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

SCV

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

STV

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

TIS

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

TRG

N-DSN 1

N-GSN 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

σκῆνος,

Dor. σκᾶνος, εος, τό,= σκηνή,

hut, tent, CIG 3071 ( Teos ).

II the body (as the tabernacle of the soul), Hp. Cord. 7, Anat. 1, Democr. 37, 187, 223, al., Pl. Ax. 366a, Ti.Locr. 100a, 101c, 101e, 2 Corinthians 5:1; ς. [μελίσσης ] AP 9.404 ( Antiphil. ).

2. dead body, corpse, IG 3.1330, 12(5).591 ( Ceos ), CIG 3123 ( Teos ), etc.; of an animal, μόσχου, ταύρων, Nic. Al. 447, Th. 742 (pl.).

Thayer's Expanded Definition

σκῆνος, σκήνους, τό (Hippocrates, Plato, others), a tabernacle, a tent, everywhere (except Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions vol. ii., no. 3071) used metaphorically, of the human body, in which the soul dwells as in a tent, and which is taken down at death: 2 Corinthians 5:4; ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους, i. e. ho esti τό σκῆνος (Winers Grammar, § 59, 7 d., 8 a.), which is the well-known tent, ibid. 1 (R. V. the earthly house of our tabernacle). Cf. Wis. 9:15 and Grimm at the passage; in the same sense in (Plato) Tim. Locr., p. 100ff and often in other philosophic writings; cf. Fischer, Index to Aeschines dial. Socrates; Passow, under the word; (Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 113 (on 2 Corinthians 5:1)).

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** σκῆνος , -ους , τό ,

[in LXX: Wisdom of Solomon 9:15 *;]

= σκηνή ,

a tent, tabernacle (C.1., 3071). Metaph., of the body as the tabernacle of the soul: 2 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:4.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

It is hardly necessary to illustrate this common name, but cf. P Hib I. 112.81 (c. B.C. 260) Σ ]τέφανος Σατόκου, P Oxy III. 517.14 (A.D. 130) διὰ Στεφὰ (νου) γρ (αμμάτεως) σεση (μείωμαι), and P Giss I. 103.1 (Christian letter—iv/A.D.) Στεφάνῳ δι [ακόνῳ ἀγ ]α ̣π ̣ητ ̣ῷ υἱῷ.

List of Word Forms

σκηνει σκήνει σκηνους σκήνους skenei skēnei skḗnei skenous skēnous skḗnous