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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(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)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

1. The word commonly translated “tent” is ohel, but it is often translated in the AV “tabernacle,” and is used also for “dwelling” or “habitation,” (Job 8:22²²They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. (Job 8:22); Psa. 91:10¹⁰There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. (Psalm 91:10); &c). This word also shows that the goats’ hair curtains formed the “tent” of the tabernacle. See TABERNACLE. It was also a “tent” that Moses pitched outside the camp in Exodus 33:7⁷And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp. (Exodus 33:7). See CAMP.

2. mishkan, rightly translated “tabernacle,” but is “tent” in Song of Solomon 1:8⁸If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents. (Song of Solomon 1:8).

3. sukkah, also translated “tabernacle,” “pavilion,” “booth;” and only once “tent” (2 Sam. 11:11¹¹And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. (2 Samuel 11:11)).

4. qubbah, occurring only in Numbers 25:8⁸And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. (Numbers 25:8). With the patriarchs their “tent” was their dwelling place as far as they had any, easily moved from place to place as the cattle needed fresh pasture. On Israel entering the land the tents gave way to houses in the cities: as the Christian’s “tabernacle” will give place to the “house” above (2 Cor. 5:1¹For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Corinthians 5:1)).

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Encampment on Pisgah’s slopes, west over the Dead Sea (1900s).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

6898 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

qubbah

Phonic:

koob-baw’

Meaning:

from 6895; a pavilion (as a domed cavity)

KJV Usage:

tent