מִשְׁכָּן
mishkân · mish-kawn'
a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7931 (שָׁכַן);
a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)
- a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave
- also, the Temple)
- specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy › the open hand that covers › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy of the open hand that covers of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִשְׁכָּן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
139 occurrences · 139 OT · 0 NT · 54 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the tabernacle46 · 40%
- the tabernacle28 · 24%
- upon the tabernacle5 · 4%
- for the tabernacle5 · 4%
- over the tabernacle4 · 3%
- tabernacle3 · 3%
- my tabernacle3 · 3%
- that the tabernacle2 · 2%
- and when the tabernacle2 · 2%
- which is by the tabernacle2 · 2%
- an habitation2 · 2%
- even of the tabernacle1 · 1%
- to the tabernacle1 · 1%
- into the tabernacle1 · 1%
- was upon the tabernacle1 · 1%
- shall be the tabernacle1 · 1%
- of all the tabernacle1 · 1%
- there was upon the tabernacle1 · 1%
- from off the tabernacle1 · 1%
- and the tabernacle1 · 1%
- from the tabernacle1 · 1%
- unto the tabernacle1 · 1%
- and thy tabernacles1 · 1%
- his tabernacle1 · 1%
- and in a tabernacle1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.