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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Tents

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

66exact KJV occurrences 66Old Testament 0New Testament 18books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 61occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 4:20

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Zechariah 14:15

And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where tents appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 55 verses Exodus 11 verses Numbers 1111 verses Deuteronomy 66 verses Joshua 55 verses Judges 22 verses 1 Samuel 11 verses 2 Samuel 22 verses 1 Kings 32 verses 2 Kings 66 verses 1 Chronicles 22 verses 2 Chronicles 54 verses Ezra 11 verses Psalms 55 verses Song of Solomon 22 verses Jeremiah 66 verses Habakkuk 11 verses Zechariah 22 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4264
מַחֲנֶה

machăneh · makh-an-eh'

5 times translated as this KJV form216 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)

Strong's KJV usage: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 13:19Strong's last: Zechariah 14:15

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HebrewH2583
חָנָה

chânâh · khaw-naw'

4 times translated as this KJV form143 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or siege)

Strong's KJV usage: abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 1:52Strong's last: Ezra 8:15

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HebrewH4908
מִשְׁכָּן

mishkân · mish-kawn'

1 times translated as this KJV form139 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)

Strong's KJV usage: dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Song of Solomon 1:8Strong's last: Song of Solomon 1:8

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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11 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Numbers 1:52
H2583

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

Numbers 9:17
H2583

And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

Numbers 9:18
no direct Strong's tag

At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

Numbers 9:20
no direct Strong's tag

And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.

Numbers 9:22
no direct Strong's tag

Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

Numbers 9:23
no direct Strong's tag

At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 13:19
H4264

And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

Numbers 16:26
H168

And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

Numbers 16:27
H168

So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

Numbers 24:2
no direct Strong's tag

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.

Numbers 24:5
H168

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

tent

TENT, noun [Latin tentorium, from tendo, to stretch.]

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of canvas or other coarse cloth, stretched and sustained by poles; used for sheltering persons from the weather, particularly soldiers in camp. The wandering Arabs and Tartars lodge in tents. The Israelites lodged in tents forty years, while they were in the desert.

2. In surgery, a roll of lint or linen, used to dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the healing of an opening from which matter or other fluid is discharged.

TENT, noun [Latin tinctus.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

TENT, verb intransitive To lodge as in a tent; to tabernacle.

TENT, verb transitive To probe; to search as with a tent; as, to tent a wound.

I'll tent him to the quick.

1. To keep open with a tent

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

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