שָׁכַן H7931

Home gloss

tent (qal); make tent (hiphil)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

dwell / place

Note

The sanctuary's verb (Exod 25:8; 29:45–46) and its noun מִשְׁכָּן; John 1:14 ἐσκήνωσεν. "Dwell" is יָשַׁב's (96). See the note at 3:24

Rulings

2, 20, 96

Declared to share English with

H168 H167 — verb/noun homograph from different roots: tent (n.) אֹהֶל / tent (v.) שָׁכַן (95, 96); אָהַל move tent (118)

Occurrences (3)

3:24 And he drove out the man; and he made tent on the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the blaze of the sword that turns itself about, to keep the way of the tree of life.

9:27 May Elohim make spacious for Japheth,and may he tent in the tents of Shem;and let Canaan be a slave to them."

14:13 And the escapee came and told Abram the Hebrew; and he was tenting by the terebinths of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner; and they were owners of the covenant of Abram.