1 | Strong's Number: g3613 | Greek: oiketerion |
Habitation:
"a habitation" (from oiketer, "an inhabitant," and oikos, "a dwelling"), is used in Jud 1:6, of the heavenly region appointed by God as the dwelling place of angels; in 2Cr 5:2, RV, "habitation," AV, "house," figuratively of the spiritual bodies of believers when raised or changed at the return of the Lord.
See HOUSE.
2 | Strong's Number: g2732 | Greek: katoiketerion |
Habitation:
(kata, "down," used intensively, and No. 1), implying more permanency than No. 1, is used in Eph 2:22 of the church as the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit; in Rev 18:2 of Babylon, figuratively, as the dwelling place of demons.
3 | Strong's Number: g2733 | Greek: katoikia |
Habitation:
"a settlement, colony, dwelling" (kata, and oikos, see above), is used in Act 17:26, of the localities Divinely appointed as the dwelling places of the nations.
4 | Strong's Number: g1886 | Greek: epaulis |
Habitation:
"a farm, a dwelling" (epi, "upon," aulis, "a place in which to pass the night, a country house, cottage or cabin, a fold"), is used in Act 1:20 of the habitation of Judas.
5 | Strong's Number: g4633 | Greek: skene |
Habitation:
akin to skenoo, "to dwell in a tent or tabernacle," is rendered "habitations" in Luk 16:9, AV (RV, "tabernacles"), of the eternal dwelling places of the redeemed.
See TABERNACLE.
6 | Strong's Number: g4638 | Greek: skenoma |
Habitation:
"a booth," or "tent pitched" (akin to No. 5), is used of the Temple as God's dwelling, as that which David desired to build, Act 7:46 (RV, "habitation," AV, "tabernacle"); metaphorically of the body as a temporary tabernacle, 2Pe 1:13, 14.
See TABERNACLE.
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