noun · masculine
skēnopoios
Greekσκηνοποιός (skēnopoios)
Strong’sG4635
a tent-maker
stem skēnopoi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
*† σκηνοποιός, -όν
(< σκηνή, ποιέω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4635 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | skēnopoios | skēnopoiois1×σκηνοποιοὶ |
| object accusative | skēnopoion | skēnopoioin |
| direct address vocative | skēnopoior | skēnopoioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | skēnopoiou | skēnopoioiu |
| to, for dative | skēnopoio | skēnopoioi |
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
skēnopoio 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
skēnopoiois“tentmakers”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 18:3“tentmakers”kai dia tem homotechnon arō menate para autoi kai ergazete, ale gar skēnopoiois ta techna.and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.