5578 tents
Dictionary of Bible Themes

A portable structure made of cloth or skins used mainly by nomads or semi-nomads. God's tent or tabernacle is a meeting-place with him.

Genesis 4:20

Tents as portable dwellings used especially by semi-nomadic peoples

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They were living quarters for God's people

Genesis 12:8; 13:12; 18:1; 25:27
Numbers 11:10
1 Samuel 4:10
2 Samuel 20:1
1 Kings 12:16
Genesis 24:67

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Sometimes women of distinction had their own tents

Genesis 31:33
Judges 4:17-18
2 Samuel 6:17

A tent housed the ark of God

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2 Samuel 7:2

pp 1Ch 16:1

1 Chronicles 15:1
2 Chronicles 1:4
Judges 6:5

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Tents associated with other peoples

Genesis 9:27
Judges 7:13
Habakkuk 3:7
Judges 7:13

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Kings and armies camped in tents

Numbers 31:10
2 Kings 7:7-8
1 Samuel 17:54

Tents for storage

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Joshua 7:21-23
Jeremiah 35:7

Tents were illustrative of a nomadic life

Hebrews 11:9-10

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Genesis 12:8; 13:5,18; 18:1-6; 20:13
Exodus 16:16; 33:8,10
Numbers 1:50
Job 8:22

Tents sometimes associated with sin

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Genesis 9:21
Numbers 16:26

Noah's drunkenness

Joshua 7:21-23

the rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

1 Kings 20:16
Job 4:21; 11:14; 12:6; 15:34; 18:6; 21:28; 22:23

Achan's sin

Psalms 84:10
Acts 18:3

The construction of tents

Tentmakers

Exodus 26:7

The materials used

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Exodus 26:14-29

pp Ex 36:14

Exodus 27:19

pp Ex 36:19-34

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Tent pegs and ropes

Exodus 35:18; 38:20,31; 39:40
Numbers 3:26,37; 4:32
Judges 4:21
Isaiah 22:25
Zechariah 10:4
Songs 1:5

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Colours of tents

Exodus 26:14
Jeremiah 10:20

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Pitching tents

Genesis 26:25; 33:19
Judges 4:11
2 Samuel 16:22
Psalms 104:2

The metaphorical use of tents

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As an image of creation

Psalms 19:4
2 Corinthians 5:1
2 Peter 1:13-14

As a metaphor for death

Exodus 25:8-9

God's tent is a meeting-place with him

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The tabernacle

Exodus 26:1-37; 39:32
Exodus 27:21; 33:7

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The Tent of Meeting

Exodus 28:43; 29:10-11,30,44; 33:11
Leviticus 1:1
Numbers 1:1
Deuteronomy 31:14-15
John 1:14

God "tenting" with his people

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Exodus 25:8; 29:45-46; 40:34-38
Leviticus 26:11-12
Numbers 5:3
Deuteronomy 12:11
Ezekiel 37:27
2 Corinthians 6:16
Revelation 21:3

See also

5341 hunger
5428 nurse
6606 access to God
7306 ark of the covenant
7344 curtain
7459 tabernacle, in OT
7474 Tent of Meeting
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