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Lexicon :: Strong's H4908 - miškān

Aa
מִשְׁכָּן
Transliteration
miškān
Pronunciation
mish-kawn'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2387c

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁכָּן mishkân, mish-kawn'; from H7931; a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls):—dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 139x

The KJV translates Strong's H4908 in the following manner: tabernacle (119x), dwelling (9x), habitation (5x), dwellingplaces (3x), place (1x), dwelleth (1x), tents (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 139x
The KJV translates Strong's H4908 in the following manner: tabernacle (119x), dwelling (9x), habitation (5x), dwellingplaces (3x), place (1x), dwelleth (1x), tents (1x).

  1. dwelling place, tabernacle

    1. dwelling-place

    2. dwellings

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁכָּן mishkân, mish-kawn'; from H7931; a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls):—dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.
STRONGS H4908: Abbreviations
מִשְׁכָּן 139 noun masculine Exodus 26:6 dwelling-place, 'tabernacle'; — מ׳ Exodus 25:9 +; construct מִשְׁכַּן Exodus 38:21 +, etc.; plural construct מִשְׁכְּנֵי Ex 46:6 (Greek Version of the LXX Bae Du מִשְׁכָּנוֺ, < מִשְׁכַּן י׳); suffix מִשְׁכְּנֵיהֶם Ezekiel 25:4 (< משׁכנתיהם, || טִירוֺתֵיהֶם), מִשְׁכָּנוֺת Habakkuk 1:6; Psalm 132:5; construct מִשׁכְּנוֺת Psalm 87:2 +, etc.; —
†1. dwelling-place: מִשְׁכַּןקֹֿרַח דָּתָן וַאֲבִירָם; Numbers 16:24, 27 (P) [but here originally מִשְׁכַּן י׳; see Commentaries]; in poetry = tomb, Isaiah 22:16.
2. elsewhere in singular always of abode of י׳:
†a. in general, of temple, קְדשׁ מ׳ Isaiah 46:5; מִשְׁכַּן כְּבוֺדֶ֑ךָ Isaiah 26:8; שְׁמֶ֑ךָ מ׳ Psalm 74:7.
b. מִשְׁכַּן שִׁלוֺ Psalm 78:60.
c. הַמּ׳ in P, of י׳'s 'dwelling' (Exodus 25:9 RVm; rendered conventionally 'tabernacle'), of planks lined with vari-coloured tapestry, with a 'tent' (אֹהֶל) over it, filled with כְּבוֺד י׳ Exodus 40:34, 35; over it cloud שׁכן Numbers 9:18, 22 (during the wanderings); its plan given by י׳ Exodus 25:9; Exodus 26:30; distinguished from אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד the 'tent' over it (compare אֹהֶל 3), Exodus 26:7, 12, 13; Exodus 36:14; Exodus 40:19; מִשְׁכַּן י׳ Leviticus 17:4 (H), Numbers 16:9; Numbers 17:28; Numbers 19:13; Numbers 31:30, 47; Joshua 22:19 (see also 1), 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:5; 29:6; הָעֵדֻת מ׳ Exodus 38:21; Numbers 1:50, 53 (twice in verse); Numbers 10:11; אהל מועד מ׳ Exodus 39:32; Exodus 40:2, 6, 29; 1 Chronicles 6:17, מִשְׁכַּן בֵּית הָאֱלֹהִים 1 Chronicles 6:23, compare נָשָׂא אֶתהַֿמִּשְׁכָּן 1 Chronicles 23:26; compare מִשְׁכָּן (probably gloss on אהל), 2 Samuel 7:6 || 1 Chronicles 17:5, + 76 times P.
3. plural מִשְׁכָּנוֺת, dwellings (only in poetry):
a. of Israel, Numbers 24:5 (poem; || אהלים), Jeremiah 30:18; Isaiah 54:2 + 4 times; of other nations Jeremiah 51:30; Habakkuk 1:6, compare Ezekiel 25:4 (see above); עַוָּל מ׳ Job 18:21; רשׁעים מ׳ Job 21:28; of wild ass Job 39:6(|| בית); shepherds Songs 1:8; = tomb Psalm 49:12 (compare 1).
b. God's abode in Zion Ezekiel 37:27; Psalm 132:5; Psalm 132:7, compare Psalm 43:3; Psalm 84:2 (|| חַצְרוֺת י׳).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7932.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

25:9; 25:9; 25:9; 26:6; 26:7; 26:12; 26:13; 26:30; 36:14; 38:21; 38:21; 39:32; 40:2; 40:6; 40:19; 40:29; 40:34; 40:35

Leviticus

17:4

Numbers

1:50; 1:53; 9:18; 9:22; 10:11; 16:9; 16:24; 16:27; 19:13; 24:5; 31:30; 31:47

Joshua

22:19

2 Samuel

7:6

1 Chronicles

6:17; 6:23; 16:39; 17:5; 21:29; 23:26

2 Chronicles

1:5; 29:6

Job

18:21; 21:28; 39:6

Psalms

43:3; 49:12; 74:7; 78:60; 84:2; 87:2; 132:5; 132:5; 132:7

Song of Songs

1:8

Isaiah

22:16; 26:8; 46:5; 54:2

Jeremiah

30:18; 51:30

Ezekiel

25:4; 25:4; 37:27

Habakkuk

1:6; 1:6

H4908

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4908 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁכָּן (miškān),
which occurs 139 times in 129 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 25:9–Exo 40:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:9 - Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1 - And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:6 - Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7 - And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:12 - And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:13 - And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:15 - And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:17 - Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:22 - And six boards for the back of the House on the west,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:23 - With two boards for the angles of the House at the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:26 - And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27 - And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west side of the House at the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:30 - And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35 - And outside the veil you are to put the table, and the support for the lights opposite the table on the south side of the House; and the table is to be on the north side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:11 - The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:15 - And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:18 - The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 - Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:13 - And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14 - And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:20 - And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:22 - Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23 - They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25 - And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:27 - And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:28 - And two boards for the angles at the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:31 - And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:32 - And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20 - All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:31 - And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 - So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:33 - Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40 - The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:9 - And take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:17 - So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18 - Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:19 - Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21 - And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north side outside the veil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:28 - And he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:29 - And at the door of the House of the Tent of meeting, he put the altar of burned offerings, offering on it the burned offering and the meal offering, as the Lord had given him orders.

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