σκηνοπηγία

skhnophgiva skhnophgiva,
skhnophgiva",
hJ (
skhnhv and
phvgnumi, cf. );1. the construction of a tabernacle or tabernacles:
hJ
th'"
celidono", the skill of the swallow in building its nest, Aristotle, h. a. 9, 7 (p. 612{b}, 22).2. the feast of tabernacles: . This festival was observed by the Jews yearly for seven days, beginning with the 15th of the month Tisri (i. e. approximately, Oct.; cf. BB. DD., under the word Month), partly to perpetuate the memory of the time when their ancestors after leaving Egypt dwelt in tents on their way through the Arabian desert (), partly as a season of festivity and joy on the completion of the harvest and the vintage () (`the feast of ingathering' (see below)). In celebrating the festival the Jews were accustomed to construct booths of the leafy branches of trees -- either on the roofs or in the courts of their dwellings, or in the streets and squares (,), and to adorn them with flowers and fruits of all kinds () -- under which, throughout the period of the festival, they feasted and gave themselves up to rejoicing. This feast is called t/KSuh' gj' (
hJ)
eJorthv (
th'")
skhnophgiva", ; ; ,f; 1 Esdr. (51); ; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 12; (
hJ)
eJorthv (
tw'n)
skhnw'n, ; ; (; ); ;
skhnaiv, Philo de septenar. sec. 24;
hJ
skhnophgiva, , ; once (twice) (; ()) #ysia;h' gj', i. e. `the feast of ingathering' namely, of fruits. (Cf. BB. DD. (especially Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto); Edersheim, The Temple, chapter xiv.)*