tabernacles
IPA: tˈæbɝnækʌɫz
Root Word: Tabernacles
noun
- A particular Jewish holiday, coming each autumn.
- A particular Christian holiday based on the Jewish one.
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Examples of "tabernacles" in Sentences
- The saints, who sojourned once in tabernacles as pilgrims, shall have a
- He dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
- Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
- Secondly, he changed the feast of tabernacles from the fifteenth of the seventh to the fifteenth of the eighth month.
- Some make that to be so (v. 9), I will make thee to dwell in tabernacles as in the days of the appointed time, that is, I will bring thee into such a condition as the
- The patriarchs, by dwelling in tabernacles, confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth, and sought the better country, and so did Christ, leaving us an example, Heb. xiii.
- Canaan was a land of pilgrimage to their fathers the patriarchs, who dwelt there in tabernacles; but then God was their habitation, and, wherever they went, they were at home, at rest, in him.
- His retirement in the evening out of the town (v. 1): He went unto the mount of olives; whether to some friend's house, or to some booth pitched there, now at the feast of tabernacles, is not certain; whether he rested there, or, as some think, continued all night in prayer to
- Though Israel deserves to be cast off for ever, yet I am still what I have been from the time of My delivering them out of Egypt, their covenant God; therefore, "I will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles," that is, to keep the feast of tabernacles again in remembrance of a new deliverance out of bondage.
- Jewish law, no part of the sin-offering was to be eaten, but all must be burnt without the camp while they dwelt in tabernacles, and without the gates when they dwelt in cities: now, if they will still be subject to that law, they cannot eat at the gospel-altar; for that which is eaten there is furnished from Christ, who is the great sin-offering.
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