noun · neuter
skēnōmem
Strong’sG4638
a dwelling
stem skēnōm-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
σκήνωμα, -τος, τό
(< σκηνόω), [in LXX chiefly for אֹהֶל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4638 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskay'-no-mah
an encampment, i.e. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as a tenement for the soul)
Fromfrom G4637;
King Jamestabernacle.
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
={σκήνημα}, mostly in plural, LXX+5th c.BC+; soldiers' quarters, Refs 5th c.BC+: singular, tent, LXX
2 in singular metaphorically,= σκῆνος NT
3 temple, LXX: name of a building at Sparta, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 = papilio, Refs (perhaps in both senses, pavilion and butterfly, compare σκῆν).
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 or object direct | skēnōmem | skēnōmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | skēnōmeu1×σκηνώματός | skēnōmeiu |
| to, for dative | skēnōme1×σκηνώματι | skēnōmei |
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
skēnōme 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
skēnōmeu“tent”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Peter 1:14… hoti tachinas atō tas apothesias teu skēnōmeu mu, kathōs kai tos kurios nu …because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as …
skēnōme“tent”to, fordative singular1×
2 Peter 1:13… epi hoson amō en houte te skēnōme, diegeirarō vin en hupomnēsia,… long as I live in the tent of my body,
skēnōmem1×
Acts 7:46… enōpion tou theou kai aiteta heuriskara skēnōmem to theo Iakōb.… God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.