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Lexicon :: Strong's H4908 - miškān

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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 2 / 3 (Exo 40:33–1Ch 16:39)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:33 - And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:34 - Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:35 - And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:36 - Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:38 - For the cloud of the LORD was above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:10 - Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 - ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:4 - “and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, the guilt of bloodshed shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:11 - I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - “but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and camp around the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - “And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - “but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - “And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of meeting, to do the work of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - “Also they shall attend to all the furnishings of the tabernacle of meeting, and to the needs of the children of Israel, to do the work of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - The duties of the children of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:26 - the screen for the door of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords, according to all the work relating to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The families of the children of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - The leader of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - And the appointed duty of the children of Merari included the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, its utensils, all the work relating to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - Moreover those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons, keeping charge of the sanctuary, to meet the needs of the children of Israel; but the outsider who came near was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - “The appointed duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the daily grain offering, the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:25 - “They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting with its covering, the covering of badger skins that is on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26 - “the screen for the door of the gate of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for their service and all that is made for these things: so shall they serve.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - “And this is what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - ‘The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:1 - Now it came to pass, when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, that he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and the altar and all its utensils; so he anointed them and consecrated them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:3 - And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 - Now on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18 - At the command of the LORD the children of Israel would journey, and at the command of the LORD they would camp; as long as the cloud stayed above the tabernacle they remained encamped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - Even when the cloud continued long, many days above the tabernacle, the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20 - So it was, when the cloud was above the tabernacle a few days: according to the command of the LORD they would remain encamped, and according to the command of the LORD they would journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether it was two days, a month, or a year that the cloud remained above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would remain encamped and not journey; but when it was taken up, they would journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:11 - Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:17 - Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:21 - Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things. (The tabernacle would be prepared for their arrival.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - “Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the work of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to serve them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:24 - “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:27 - So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:13 - “Whoever even comes near the tabernacle of the LORD must die. Shall we all utterly die?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - ‘Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:5 - “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob!
Your dwellings, O Israel!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the children of Israel’s half you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the children of Israel’s half Moses took one of every fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - ‘Nevertheless, if the land of your possession is unclean, then cross over to the land of the possession of the LORD, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:29 - “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn from following the LORD this day, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the LORD our God which is before His tabernacle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:6 - “For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:32 - They were ministering with music before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they served in their office according to their order.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:48

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:48 - And their brethren, the Levites, were appointed to every kind of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - and Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place that was at Gibeon,

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