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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
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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