noun · feminine
kataskēnōsias
Strong’sG2682
a dwelling-place
stem kataskēnōsi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† κατα-σκήνωσις, εως, ἡ,
[in LXX: I Ch 28:2 (בְּנוֹת), Ez 37:27 (מִשְׁכָּן), To 1:4, Wi 9:8, II Mac 14:35 (R)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2682 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-as-kay'-no-sis
an encamping, i.e. (figuratively) a perch
Fromfrom G2681;
King Jamesnest.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
encamping, taking up one's quarters, LXX+2nd c.BC+; διδόναι εἰς κ. to give them as quarters, Refs 3rd c.BC+ in camp, Refs 1st c.AD+.
2 of birds, restingplace, nest, NT.Mat.8.20 (plural).
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kataskēnōsias | kataskēnōsiais |
| object accusative | kataskēnōsian | kataskēnōsiain2×κατασκηνώσεις |
| direct address vocative | kataskēnōsiar | kataskēnōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kataskēnōsiau | kataskēnōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | kataskēnōsia | kataskēnōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kataskēnōsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kataskēnōsiain“nests”objectaccusative plural2×
Matthew 8:20… echalō kai teim peteineim tou ouranou kataskēnōsiain, tos de huios tou anthrōpou ouk …… and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has …
Luke 9:58… echalō kai teim peteineim tou ouranou kataskēnōsiain, tos de huios tou anthrōpou ouk …… and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has …