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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Tents
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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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Genesis
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Exodus
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Numbers
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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
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אֹהֶל
ʼôhel · o'-hel
50 times translated as this KJV form345 total Strong's occurrences
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
Strong's KJV usage: covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 4:20Strong's last: Zechariah 12:7
Open full H168 profile →מַחֲנֶה
machăneh · makh-an-eh'
5 times translated as this KJV form216 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Strong's first: Numbers 13:19Strong's last: Zechariah 14:15
Open full H4264 profile →חָנָה
chânâh · khaw-naw'
4 times translated as this KJV form143 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H2583 profile →מִשְׁכָּן
mishkân · mish-kawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form139 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H4908 profile →סֻכָּה
çukkâh · sook-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form31 total Strong's occurrences
a hut or lair
Strong's KJV usage: booth, cottage, covert, pavilion, tabernacle, tent.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 11:11Strong's last: 2 Samuel 11:11
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H168
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
H168
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
H168
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
H168
But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
H168
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
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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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