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Tents (284 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Tents (284 Occurrences). ... If you want, let's make three
tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (WEB WEY BBE). ...
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Tent (333 Occurrences)
... variously rendered). Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (Genesis
4:20). The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (Genesis ...
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Kedar (11 Occurrences)
... Ezek. 27:21), who dwelt in the north-west of Arabia. They lived in black
hair-tents (Cant. 1:5). To "dwell in the tents of Kedar ...
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Living-places (17 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 23:42 For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are
Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places: (BBE). ...
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Jesse's (4 Occurrences)
... a Benjamite; and he blew the horn, and said: 'We have no portion in David, neither
have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel ...
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Circle (32 Occurrences)
... 13:11 For the bodies of the beasts whose blood is taken into the holy place by the
high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the circle of the tents...
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Shelters (9 Occurrences)
... us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one
for Moses, and one for Elijah." (See NIV). Mark 9:5 Peter ...
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Flag (30 Occurrences)
... See RSV). Numbers 1:52 The children of Israel are to put up their tents,
every man in his tent-circle round his flag. (BBE). Numbers ...
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Homes (43 Occurrences)
... Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which
Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan. (See NIV). ...
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Journeying (36 Occurrences)
... South. (BBE YLT). Genesis 35:21 And Israel went journeying on and put up his
tents on the other side of the tower of the flock. (BBE). ...
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Bible Concordance

Tents (284 Occurrences)

Matthew 17:4 Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
(WEB WEY BBE)

Mark 9:5 Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
(WEB WEY BBE)

Luke 9:33 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.
(WEB WEY BBE)

Luke 16:9 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.
(WEB WEY)

John 7:2 But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.
(BBE)

Hebrews 11:9 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.
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 13:11 For the bodies of the beasts whose blood is taken into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the circle of the tents.
(BBE)

Hebrews 13:13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.
(BBE)

Revelation 20:9 And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction.
(BBE)

Genesis 4:20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 9:27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 13:5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom.
(DBY NAS NIV)

Genesis 13:18 Then Abram moved his tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.
(DBY NIV)

Genesis 25:27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 26:17 So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.
(BBE)

Genesis 26:25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.
(BBE)

Genesis 31:25 Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.
(BBE)

Genesis 32:21 So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.
(BBE)

Genesis 33:17 And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.
(BBE)

Genesis 33:18 So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.
(BBE)

Genesis 33:19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.
(BBE)

Genesis 35:21 And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock.
(BBE)

Exodus 13:20 Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land.
(BBE)

Exodus 14:2 Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea.
(BBE)

Exodus 14:9 But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
(BBE)

Exodus 14:19 Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back:
(BBE)

Exodus 15:27 And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.
(BBE)

Exodus 16:13 And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents.
(BBE)

Exodus 16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
(KJV WBS)

Exodus 17:1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.
(BBE)

Exodus 18:23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.
(BBE)

Exodus 19:2 And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.
(BBE)

Exodus 19:17 And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,
(BBE)

Exodus 29:14 But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering.
(BBE)

Exodus 32:17 Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents.
(BBE)

Exodus 32:19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.
(BBE)

Exodus 32:26 Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.
(BBE)

Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.
(BBE)

Exodus 33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent.
(See NIV)

Exodus 33:11 And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent.
(BBE)

Exodus 36:6 So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.
(BBE)

Leviticus 4:12 All the ox, he is to take away outside the circle of the tents into a clean place where the burned waste is put, and there it is to be burned on wood with fire.
(BBE)

Leviticus 23:34 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say,'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.
(WEB BBE)

Leviticus 23:42 For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places:
(BBE)

Leviticus 23:43 So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
(BBE)

Leviticus 24:10 And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;
(BBE)

Numbers 1:52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV NIV)

Numbers 1:53 But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.
(BBE NIV)

Numbers 2:2 The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.
(BBE)

Numbers 2:3 Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.
(BBE)

Numbers 2:17 Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.
(BBE)

Numbers 2:31 The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.
(BBE)

Numbers 2:32 These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.
(BBE)

Numbers 2:34 So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers' houses.
(BBE)

Numbers 3:23 The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.
(BBE)

Numbers 3:29 The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.
(BBE)

Numbers 3:35 The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House.
(BBE)

Numbers 4:15 And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.
(BBE)

Numbers 9:17 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.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Numbers 9:18 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.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Numbers 9:20 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.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Numbers 9:22 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.
(KJV WBS)

Numbers 9:23 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.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Numbers 10:2 Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents.
(BBE)

Numbers 10:5 When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.
(BBE)

Numbers 10:6 At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.
(BBE)

Numbers 10:25 And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.
(BBE)

Numbers 10:31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.
(BBE)

Numbers 10:34 And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents.
(BBE)

Numbers 11:9 When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.
(BBE)

Numbers 11:31 Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.
(BBE)

Numbers 11:32 And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.
(BBE)

Numbers 11:35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people went on to Hazeroth; and there they put up their tents.
(BBE)

Numbers 12:16 After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.
(BBE)

Numbers 13:19 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;
(KJV WBS)

Numbers 16:24 Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram.
(See NIV)

Numbers 16:26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 16:27 So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 20:1 In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth.
(BBE)

Numbers 21:10 Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.
(BBE)

Numbers 21:11 And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.
(BBE)

Numbers 21:12 And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.
(BBE)

Numbers 21:13 From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:
(BBE)

Numbers 21:15 The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.
(BBE)

Numbers 21:31 So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.
(BBE)

Numbers 22:1 Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.
(BBE)

Numbers 22:5 So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:
(BBE)

Numbers 24:2 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.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS)

Numbers 24:5 How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 33:5 So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up their tents in Succoth.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:6 And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in Etham on the edge of the waste land.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:7 And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon, they put up their tents before Migdol.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:8 And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in Marah.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:9 And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees; and they put up their tents there.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:10 And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:11 Then from the Red Sea they went on and put up their tents in the waste land of Sin.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:12 And they went on from the waste land of Sin, and put up their tents in Dophkah.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:13 And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.
(BBE)

Numbers 33:14 And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.
(BBE)

Greek

4635. skenopoios -- making tents
... making tents. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: skenopoios Phonetic
Spelling: (skay-nop-oy-os') Short Definition: a tent-maker Definition: a tent ...
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4634. skenopegia -- the setting up of tents
... the setting up of tents. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: skenopegia
Phonetic Spelling: (skay-nop-ayg-ee'-ah) Short Definition: the feast of ...
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4633. skene -- a tent
... Word Origin a prim. word Definition a tent NASB Word Usage dwellings (1), tabernacle
(15), tabernacles (3), tents (1). habitation, tabernacle. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2583. chanah -- to decline, bend down, encamp
... camped (3), Settling (1). abide in tents, camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end,
lie, pitch tent, rest in tent. A primitive root (compare ...
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4264. machaneh -- an encampment, camp
... 1). army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents. From chanah; an
encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether ...
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167. ahal -- to move a tent (from place to place)
... Word Origin denominative verb from the same as ohel Definition to move a tent (from
place to place) NASB Word Usage moved tent (1), moved tents (1), pitch tent ...
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4908. mishkan -- dwelling place, tabernacle
... place, tabernacle NASB Word Usage dwelling (1), dwelling place (8), dwelling places
(9), dwellings (9), resting place (1), tabernacle (109), tents (1), where ...
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168. ohel -- a tent
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a tent NASB Word Usage home
(1), owned (1), side pillar (1), tent (285), tents (56). ...
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5524. Sukkoth Benoth -- "booths of daughters," an Assyr.-Bab. god
... Succoth-benoth. From Cukkowth and the (irreg.) Plural of bath; booths of (the)
daughters; brothels, ie Idoalatrous tents for impure purpose -- Succoth-benoth. ...
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4550. massa -- a pulling up, breaking (camp), setting out, a ...
... journeying. From naca'; a departure (from striking the tents), ie March (not
necessarily a single day's travel); by implication, a station (or point of departure ...
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Library

I am Black, but Comely, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem, as the Tents ...
... COMMENTARY. CHAPTER I. 4. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/4 i am black but.htm

The Glorious Habitation
... And perhaps from the summit of the hill, looking upon the tribes of Israel as they
were taking up their tents and marching along, he thought, "Ah! ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the glorious habitation.htm

Chapter i
... glad in thee, remembering thy breasts are better than wine, the upright love
thee.5. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/chapter i.htm

The End of the War
... your God.4. And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as He
promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the end of the war.htm

How Moses Ascended up to Mount Sinai, and Received Laws from God ...
... unto mount Sinai to converse with God; to receive from him, and to bring back with
him, a certain oracle; but he enjoined them to pitch their tents near the ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 5 how moses ascended.htm

How the Midianites and Other Nations Fought against the Israelites ...
... enemies in the night-time; but God, being willing to free him from his fear, bid
him take one of his soldiers, and go near to the Midianites' tents, for that ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 how the midianites.htm

The Wailing of Risca
... "Suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.""Jeremiah 4:20. ... "How
suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment." Oh! ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/the wailing of risca.htm

If Thou Know Not, O Thou Fairest among Women, Go Thy Way Forth by ...
... CHAPTER I. 7. 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. ...
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'Impossible, --Only I Saw It'
... us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.7.
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/impossibleonly i saw it.htm

The Second Rule of Tichonius.
... An example of this is that passage in the Song of Solomon, "I am black, but comely,
as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." [1900] For it is not ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 32 the second rule of.htm

Subtopics

Tents

Tents of the Jews Contrasted With Those of the Arabs

Tents were Pitched in the Neighbourhood of Wells

Tents were Pitched with Order and Regularity

Tents were Pitched: On the Tops of Houses

Tents were Pitched: Under Trees

Tents were Spread Out

Tents were Used by all Eastern Nations

Tents were Used by Israel in the Desert

Tents were Used by Patriarchs

Tents were Used by Shepherds While Tending Their Flocks