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Tent in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

'ohel, "tabernacle "; mishkan, "dwelling"; sukkak, "booth"; qubbah, "recess" (Numbers 25:8). The characteristic dwelling of the keepers of cattle, the nomadic races, of whom Jabal was the father (Genesis 4:20). The stay of Israel in Egypt weaned them from tent life and trained them for their fixed home in Canaan. The pastoral tribes Reuben, Ga...

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Tent Scripture - Exodus 40:29

And he put the altar of burnt offering [by] the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses....

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Robbery in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Robbery has ever been one of the principal employments of the nomad tribes of the East. From the time of Ishmael to the present day the Bedouin has been a "wild man," and a robber by trade. Ge 16:12 The Mosaic law on the subject of theft is contained in Ex 2:2 There seems no reason to suppose that the law underwent any alteration in Solomon's ...

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Street Scripture - Jeremiah 37:21

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison....

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Street Scripture - Ezra 10:9

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of [this] matter, and for the great rain....

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Synagogue Scripture - Acts 14:1

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed....

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Taxed Scripture - Luke 2:5

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child....

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Synagogue in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Gr. sunagoge, i.e., "an assembly"), found only once in the Authorized Version of Ps. 74:8, where the margin of Revised Version has "places of assembly," which is probably correct; for while the origin of synagogues is unknown, it may well be supposed that buildings or tents for the accommodation of worshippers may have existed in the land...

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Tax in Naves Topical Bible

Poll Ex 30:11-16; 38:26; Ne 10:32; Lu 2:1 -Jesus pays Mt 17:24-27 -Land Ge 41:34,48; 2Ki 23:35 -Land mortgaged for Ne 5:3,4 -Priests exempted from Ge 47:26; Ezr 7:24 -Paid in grain Am 5:11; 7:1 -Paid in provisions 1Ki 4:7-28 -Personal 1Ki 9:15; 2Ki 15:19,20; 23:35 -Resisted by Israelites 1Ki 12:18; 2Ch 10:18 -World-wide, levied by...

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Tent in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Among the leading characteristics of the nomad races, those two have always been numbered whose origin has been ascribed to Jabal the son of Lameth, Ge 4:20 viz., to be tent- dwellers and keepers of cattle. The same may be said of the forefathers of the Hebrew race; nor was it until the return into Canaan from Egypt that the Hebrews became inha...

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