σκηνή
tabernacle
‘tabernacle’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 6 times (30%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 4 times (20%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 4 times (20%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (20%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (5%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (5%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 20 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4633 appears — 20 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 9:33 σκηνὰς n acc pl fem It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
- Luke 16:9 σκηνάς n acc pl fem I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 7:43 σκηνὴν n acc sg fem You took up the tent of Moloch, The star of your god Rephan, The figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'
- Acts 7:44 σκηνὴ n nom sg fem "Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
- Acts 15:16 σκηνὴν n acc sg fem 'After these things I will return. I will again build the tent of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,
Hebrews 10 verses
- Hebrews 8:2 σκηνῆς n gen sg fem a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
- Hebrews 8:5 σκηνήν n acc sg fem who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."
- Hebrews 9:2 σκηνὴ n nom sg fem For there was a tabernacle prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
- Hebrews 9:3 σκηνὴ n nom sg fem After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
- Hebrews 9:6 σκηνὴν n acc sg fem Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
- Hebrews 9:8 σκηνῆς n gen sg fem The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
- Hebrews 9:11 σκηνῆς n gen sg fem But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
- Hebrews 9:21 σκηνὴν n acc sg fem Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.
- Hebrews 11:9 σκηναῖς n dat pl fem By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
- Hebrews 13:10 σκηνῇ n dat sg fem We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 13:6 σκηνὴν n acc sg fem He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
- Revelation 15:5 σκηνῆς n gen sg fem After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.
- Revelation 21:3 σκηνὴ n nom sg fem I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, σκηνη (skēnḗ) means “tabernacle.” Its uses cluster heavily in Hebrews (50% of all occurrences). With 20 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 17:4. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4633 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #622
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 622 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 10 verses 50%
- Acts 3 verses 15%
- Revelation 3 verses 15%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 10 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 25%
- Gospels 4 verses · 20%
- Johannine 3 verses · 15%
- Revelation 3 verses · 15%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Tabernacle 15×, Tabernacles 4×
- American Standard Version: Tabernacle 15×, Tabernacles 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tabernacle 11×, Shelters 3×, Room 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tabernacle 10×, Tents 4×, Dwelling 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4633 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4633 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4633 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4633 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- tent, tabernacle, (made of green boughs, or skins or other materials)
- of that well known movable temple of God after the pattern of which the temple at Jerusalem was built
Word origin
Derived from σκευος (skeûos) (G4632) — vessel.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G4633 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκηνὴν skēnḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 7:43 | 5 |
| σκηνὴ skēnḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 7:44 | 4 |
| σκηνῆς skēnē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 8:2 | 4 |
| σκηνάς skēnás | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 17:4 | 3 |
| σκηνήν skēnḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 8:5 | 1 |
| σκηναῖς skēnaîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Hebrews 11:9 | 1 |
| σκηνὰς skēnàs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 9:33 | 1 |
| σκηνῇ skēnē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 13:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4633, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σκηνη appears 388 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 331 verses in 24 books.
- 388
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 331
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 24 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:20 σκηνή
- Exodus 18:7 σκηνή
- Leviticus 1:1 σκηνή
- Numbers 1:1 σκηνή
- Deuteronomy 1:27 σκηνή
- Joshua 7:21 σκηνή
- Judges 4:11 σκηνή
- 2 Samuel 6:17 σκηνή
- 1 Kings 1:39 σκηνή
- 2 Kings 7:7 σκηνή
- 1 Chronicles 5:10 σκηνή
- 2 Chronicles 1:3 σκηνή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4633) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 331. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:20 σκηνή Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.
- Genesis 12:8 σκηνή He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 13:3 σκηνή He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
- Genesis 13:5 σκηνή Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- Genesis 18:1 σκηνή Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
- Genesis 18:2 σκηνή He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
- Genesis 18:6 σκηνή Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
- Genesis 18:9 σκηνή They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, "See, in the tent."
- Genesis 18:10 σκηνή He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 25:16 σκηνή These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
- Genesis 26:25 σκηνή He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
- Genesis 31:25 σκηνή Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
- Genesis 33:17 σκηνή Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
- Genesis 33:19 σκηνή He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
- Genesis 35:16 σκηνή They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
- Exodus 18:7 σκηνή Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
- Exodus 25:9 σκηνή According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tent, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
- Exodus 26:1 σκηνή "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
- Exodus 26:6 σκηνή You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
- Exodus 26:7 σκηνή "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them.
- Exodus 26:9 σκηνή You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
- Exodus 26:12 σκηνή The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tent.
- Exodus 26:13 σκηνή The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Exodus 26:14 σκηνή You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
- Exodus 26:15 σκηνή "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Exodus 26:17 σκηνή There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent.
- Exodus 26:18 σκηνή You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward.
- Exodus 26:22 σκηνή For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards.
- Exodus 26:23 σκηνή Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in the far part.
- Exodus 26:26 σκηνή "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tent,
- Exodus 26:27 σκηνή and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the far part westward.
- Exodus 26:30 σκηνή You shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
- Exodus 26:35 σκηνή You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 27:9 σκηνή "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 27:21 σκηνή In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 28:43 σκηνή They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
- Exodus 29:4 σκηνή You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
- Exodus 29:10 σκηνή "You shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
- Exodus 29:11 σκηνή You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 29:30 σκηνή Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
- Exodus 29:32 σκηνή Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 29:42 σκηνή It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- Exodus 29:44 σκηνή I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 30:16 σκηνή You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."
- Exodus 30:18 σκηνή "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
- Exodus 30:20 σκηνή When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Exodus 30:21 σκηνή So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."
- Exodus 30:26 σκηνή You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,
- Exodus 30:36 σκηνή and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Exodus 31:7 σκηνή the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4633) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
