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From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: T By: James P. Boyd

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(stretched). The house of nomad and pastoral peoples. It was made of strong cloth, chiefly of goat’s hair, stretched on poles, and firmly pegged to the ground (Gen. 4:20; 18:1²⁰And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. (Genesis 4:20)
¹And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; (Genesis 18:1); Judg. 4:21²¹Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. (Judges 4:21); Isa. 38:12¹²Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. (Isaiah 38:12)).

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