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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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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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

Psalms 69:25
H168

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

Psalms 78:55
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.

Psalms 84:10
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.

Psalms 106:25
H168

But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

Psalms 120:5
H168

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

Song of Solomon 1:5
H168

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Song of Solomon 1:8
H4908

If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

Jeremiah 4:20
H168

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 6:3
H168

The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

Jeremiah 30:18
H168

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Jeremiah 35:7
H168

Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

Jeremiah 35:10
H168

But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Jeremiah 49:29
H168

Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

Habakkuk 3:7
H168

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

Zechariah 12:7
H168

The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

Zechariah 14:15
H4264

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.

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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