skēnē · tent, shelter

What it means

skēnē (σκηνή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “tent, shelter”.

Tent, a shelter of branches; also the tent of meeting in the wilderness.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A portable shelter of cloth or skins, or a hut of branches.
2. The portable sanctuary that Israel carried through the wilderness, where God dwelt.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tent ×15
• tents ×4
• dwellings ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×3
• Hebrews×10
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 17:4

  And Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”

• Mark 9:5

  And Peter responds and says to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”

• Luke 9:33

  And it happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”— not knowing what he was saying.

• Luke 16:9

  And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into the eternal dwellings.

• Acts 7:43

  And you took up the tent of Molech and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made to worship them. And I will deport you beyond Babylon.’

• Acts 7:44

  Our fathers had the tent of testimony in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen.

• Acts 15:16

  ‘After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen, and its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,

• Hebrews 8:2

  a minister of the holy place and of the true tent, which the Lord pitched, not a human being.

• Hebrews 8:5

  they worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tent: See, he says, that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

• Hebrews 9:2

  For a tent was prepared, the first one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the loaves of presentation; this is called the Holy Place.

• Hebrews 9:3

  And behind the second curtain was a tent called the Most Holy Place,

• Hebrews 9:6

  With these things thus prepared, the priests go continually into the first tent performing the acts of worship;

• Hebrews 9:8

  The Holy Spirit is making this clear, that the way into the Holy Place has not yet been revealed while the first tent still has its standing.

• Hebrews 9:11

  But when the Messiah came as high priest of the good things that have come, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

• Hebrews 9:21

  And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood the tent and all the vessels of the ministry.

• Hebrews 11:9

  By faith he lived as a resident alien in the land of the promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise;

• Hebrews 13:10

  We have an altar from which those who worship in the tent have no right to eat.

• Revelation 13:6

  And it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tent, those who dwell in heaven.

• Revelation 15:5

  And after these things I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of testimony in heaven was opened,

• Revelation 21:3

  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look, the tent of God is with humanity, and he will pitch his tent with them, and they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them.