Tents
Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead....
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And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and
Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD,
and called upon the name of the LORD....
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Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto
all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate.
And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled
every man to his tent....
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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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And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the
congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the tent, the
covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,...
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And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of
that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the
tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this
side and on that side, to cover it....
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'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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And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red,
and a covering [of] badgers' skins above [that]....
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tent ('ohel; skene; 'ohel is a derivative of 'ahal, "to be
clear," "to shine"; hence, 'ohel, "to be conspicuous from a
distance"): In the great stretches of uncultivated lands in
the interior of Syria or Arabia, which probably have much
the same aspect today as in Abraham's time, it is an easy
matter to espy an encampment of roving Bedouin, "a...
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Used for a dwelling
Ge 4:20
-By Noah
Ge 9:21
-By Abraham
Ge 12:8; 13:18; 18:1
-By Lot
Ge 13:5
-By Moses
Ex 18:7
-By the people of Israel
Nu 24:5,6; 2Sa 20:1; 1Ki 12:16
-By the Midianites
Jud 6:5
-By Cushites
Hab 3:7
-By Arabians
Isa 13:20
-By shepherds
Isa 38:12; Jer 6:3
-Women had separate tents from men
Ge 24:67; 31:33
-Used...
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