Mishkan מִשְׁכָּן

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Mishkan
מִשְׁכָּן
Transliterationmishkan
Strong's numberH4908
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosstabernacle
Occurrences139 in 129 verses
Most frequent inExodus (55)

Mishkan (Hebrew מִשְׁכָּן, Strong's H4908) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “tabernacle”. It occurs 139 times in 129 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) dwelling place, tabernacle
1a) dwelling-place
1b) dwellings
Aramaic equivalent: mish.kan (מִשְׁכַּן "habitation" H4907)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVtabernacle (114), dwellings (6), tabernacles (5), dwelling (3), habitation (3), dwellingplaces (3), habitations (2), dwelleth (1), place (1), tents (1)
BSBtabernacle (98), dwellings (4), my dwelling place (2), your dwellings (2), dwelling place (2), their dwellings (2), above the tabernacle (1), my tabernacle (1), it (1), whenever the tabernacle (1), whenever it (1), were the tabernacle's (1), and 18 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Mishkan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Joshua

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Job

Psalms

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Habakkuk

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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