STRONGS NUMBER H4908


Word Summary
mishkan: dwelling place, tabernacle
Original Word: מִשְׁכָּן
Transliteration: mishkan
Phonetic Spelling: (mish-kawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dwelling place, tabernacle
Meaning: a residence, the Tabernacle
Strong's Concordance
dwelling place, habitation, tabernacle, tent

From shakan; a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls) -- dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.

see HEBREW shakan

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4908. mishkan

מִשְׁכָּןnoun masculine Exodus 26:6 dwelling-place, 'tabernacle'; — ׳מ25:9 +; construct מִשְׁכַּן38:21 +, etc.; plural construct מִשְׁכְּנֵי‎ Ex 46:6 (ᵐ5‎ Bae Du מִשְׁכָּנוֺ‎, < י ׳מִשְׁכַּן‎); suffix מִשְׁכְּנֵיהֶםEzekiel 25:4 (< משׁכנתיהם‎, "" טִירוֺתֵיהֶם‎), מִשְׁכָּנוֺתHabakkuk 1:6; Psalm 132:5; construct מִשׁכְּנוֺת87:2 +, etc.; —

1 dwelling-place: וַאֲבִירָם דָּתָן מִשְׁכַּןקֹֿרַח‎; Numbers 16:24, 27 (P) [but here originally י ׳מִשְׁכַּן‎; see Commentaries]; in poetry = tomb, Isaiah 22:16.

2 elsewhere in singular always of abode of ׳י‎:

a. in General, of temple, מ ׳קְדשׁIsaiah 46:5; כְּבוֺדֶ֑ךָ מִשְׁכַּן26:8; ׳מ שְׁמֶ֑ךָ‎ Isa 74:7.

b. שִׁלוֺ מִשְׁכַּן‎ Isa 78:60.

c. ׳הַמּ‎ in P, of ׳י‎s 'dwelling' (Exodus 25:9 RVm; rendered conventionally 'tabernacle'), of planks lined with vari-coloured tapestry, with a 'tent' (אֹהֶל‎) over it, filled with י ׳כְּבוֺד40:34-35, over it cloud שׁכןNumbers 9:18, 22 (during the wanderings); its plan given by ׳יExodus 25:9; 26:30; distinguished from מוֺעֵד אֹהֶל‎ the 'tent' over it (compare אֹהֶל3), 26:7, 12, 13; 36:14; 40:19; י ׳מִשְׁכַּןLeviticus 17:4 (H), Numbers 16:9; Numbers 17:28; 19:13; 31:30, 47; Joshua 22:19 (see also 1), 1 Chronicles 16:39; 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:5; 29:6; ׳מ הָעֵדֻתExodus 38:21; Numbers 1:50, 53 (twice in verse); 10:11; ׳מ מועד אהלExodus 39:32; 40:2, 6, 29; 1 Chronicles 6:17, הָאֱלֹהִים בֵּית מִשְׁכַּן‎ v.6:23, compare אֶתהַֿמִּשְׁכָּן נָשָׂא23:26; compare מִשְׁכָּן‎ (probably gloss on אהל‎), 2 Samuel 7:6 "" 1 Chronicles 17:5, + 76 t. P.

3 plural מִשְׁכָּנוֺת‎, dwellings (only in poetry):

a. of Israel, Numbers 24:5 (poem; "" אהלים‎), Jeremiah 30:18; Isaiah 54:2 4t.; of other nations Jeremiah 51:30; Habakkuk 1:6, compare Ezekiel 25:4 (see above); ׳מ עַוָּלJob 18:21; ׳מ רשׁעים21:28; of wild ass 39:6("" בית‎); shepherds Song of Solomon 1:8; = tomb Psalm 49:12 (compare 1).

b. God's abode in Zion Ezekiel 37:27; Psalm 132:5; 132:7, compare 43:3; 84:2 ("" י ׳חַצְרוֺת‎).

[שְׁכֵן‎ compare ᵑ7‎] verb dwell (Biblical Hebrew מִשְׁכָּן שָׁכַן,‎); —

Pe`al Imperfect3feminine plural יִשְׁכְּנָןDaniel 4:18 dwell, of birds, ב‎ location

Pa`el causative: Perfect3masculine singular שְׁמֵהּתַּמָּה שַׁכִּןEzra 6:12, of God, cause his name to dwell there.