σκηνή

skhnhv skhnhv,
skhnh'",
hJ (from the root, ska `to cover' etc.; cf.
skiav,
skovto", etc.; Latin casa, cassis, castrum; English shade, etc.; Curtius, sec. 112; Vanicek, p. 1054f), from (Aeschylus), Sophocles and Thucydides down; the Septuagint chiefly for lh,ao, often also for @K;v]mi, also for hK;su; a tent, tabernacle (made of green boughs, or skins, or other materials): ; ; ; ;
aiJ
aijwvnioi
skhnaiv (see
aijwvnio", 3), (et dabo iis tabernacula aeterna quae praeparaveram illis, 4 (5) Esdr. ); of that well known movable temple of God after the pattern of which the temple at Jerusalem was subsequently built (cf. B. D., under the word Temple): ; Rec.^st, 21; with
tou'
marturivou added (see
martuvrion, c. at the end), ; the temple is called
skhnhv in ;
skhnhv
prwvth, the front part of the tabernacle (and afterward of the temple), the Holy place, ,,; of the Holy of holies, ; the name is transferred to heaven, as the true dwelling-place of God and the prototype of the earthly `tabernacle' or sanctuary, ; ; hence,
hJ
skhnhv
hJ
ajlhqinhv, heaven, ; with a reference to this use of the word, it is declared that when the kingdom of God is perfectly established
hJ
skhnhv
tou'
Qeou' will be
metav
tw'n (after the analogy of
skhnoun
metav
tivno"), ;
oJ
naov"
th'"
skhnh'"
tou'
marturivou (see
martuvrion, c. at the end), the heavenly temple, in which was the tabernacle of the covenant, i. e. the inmost sanctuary or adytum, .
hJ
skhnhv
tou'
Molovc, the tabernacle i. e. portable shrine of Moloch, (for the Orientals on their journeys and military expeditions used to carry with them their deities, together with shrines for them; hence,
hJ
iJerav
skhnhv of the Carthaginians in Diodorus 20, 65, where see Wesseling (but cf. tWKsi in M?hlau and Volck's Gesenius, or the recent commentaries on )).
hJ
skhnhv
Dauivd (from for hK;su), the hut (tabernacle) of David, seems to be employed, in contempt, of his house, i. e. family reduced to decay and obscurity, (otherwise dwID; lh,ao in ).*