4638. skénóma

Lexicon

skénóma: Tent, Tabernacle, Dwelling

Original Word: σκῆνωμα
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: skénóma
Pronunciation: skay'-no-mah
Phonetic Spelling: (skay'-no-mah)
KJV: tabernacle
NASB: dwelling, dwelling place
Word Origin: [from G4637 (σκηνόω - dwell)]

1. an encampment
2. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as an abode for the soul)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

tabernacle.

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

see GREEK skenoo

HELPS Word-studies

4638 skḗnōma – properly, a pitched tent ("tabernacle," Ac 7:46); (figuratively) the physical body, serving as God's vehicle (dwelling place) – i.e. as believers live as sojourner-travelers ("pilgrims") with the Lord in this life, through faith (2 Pet 1:13,14).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from skénoó
Definition
a tent
NASB Translation
dwelling (2), dwelling place (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 4638: σκήνωμα

σκήνωμα, σκηνώματος, τό (σκηνόω), a tent, tabernacle: of the temple as God's habitation, Acts 7:46 (Psalm 14:1 (); Psalm 25:8 (); Psalm 42:3 (); Psalm 45:5 (); Pausanias, 3, 17, 6; of the tabernacle of the covenant, 1 Kings 2:28); metaphorically, of the human body as the dwelling of the soul (see σκῆνος): ἐν τῷ σκηνώματι εἶναι, of life on earth, 2 Peter 1:15; ἀπόθεσις (the author blending the conceptions of a tent and of a covering or garment, as Paul does in 2 Corinthians 5:2), ibid. 14. (Euripides, Xenophon, Plutarch, others; the Sept. for אֹהֶל and מִשְׁכָן.)

Forms and Transliterations

σκηνωμα σκήνωμα σκήνωμά σκηνωμασι σκηνώμασι σκηνώμασί σκηνώμασιν σκηνώματα σκηνώματά σκήνωματα σκηνωματι σκηνώματι σκηνώματί σκηνωματος σκηνώματος σκηνώματός σκηνωμάτων σκήπτρα σκήπτρον σκήπτρου σκήπτρω skenoma skēnōma skḗnoma skḗnōma skenomati skenṓmati skēnōmati skēnṓmati skenomatos skenṓmatós skēnōmatos skēnṓmatós

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 7:46 N-ANS
GRK: ᾐτήσατο εὑρεῖν σκήνωμα τῷ οἴκῳ
NAS: that he might find a dwelling place for the God
KJV: to find a tabernacle for the God
INT: asked to find a tabernacle for the house [of the God]

2 Peter 1:13 N-DNS
GRK: τούτῳ τῷ σκηνώματι διεγείρειν ὑμᾶς
NAS: in this [earthly] dwelling, to stir
KJV: in this tabernacle, to stir you
INT: this tabernacle to stir up you

2 Peter 1:14 N-GNS
GRK: ἀπόθεσις τοῦ σκηνώματός μου καθὼς
NAS: that the laying aside of my [earthly] dwelling is imminent,
KJV: put off [this] my tabernacle, even as
INT: putting off of the tabernacle of me as

Strong's Greek 4638
3 Occurrences

σκήνωμα — 1 Occ.
σκηνώματι — 1 Occ.
σκηνώματός — 1 Occ.