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σκήνωμα

MainId: 004542000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: σ

StrongCodes: G4638

BaseForms:

BaseFormID: 004542001000000
PartsOfSpeech: noun, n.
Inflections:
1. Lemma: σκήνωμα
  BaseFormIndex: 1
  Realizations: -τος
RelatedLemmas: {'Word': 'σκηνόω', 'Meanings': []}
LEXMeanings:
1. LEXID: 004542001001000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
  LEXEntryCode: 7.8
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Constructions
  LEXSubDomains: Buildings
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2022-02-11 12:23:02
    DefinitionShort: a dwelling, with the implication of temporary duration
    Glosses: dwelling
    Comments: In {S:04400704600020} there is a complex textual problem in which the critical text has τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰακώβ ‘the house of Jacob’ (but in the figurative sense of ‘people’), but the Byzantine text reads τῷ θεῷ Ἰακώβ ‘the God of Jacob.’ It is only with this latter form of the text that σκήνωμα would mean an actual construction or dwelling. If one adopts the form of the critical text, then σκήνωμα would point to ‘a place to dwell,’ in other words, an area or region (see {D:85.77}).
  LEXReferences: ACTs 7:46
2. LEXID: 004542001002000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 85.77
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Existence in Space
  LEXSubDomains: Dwell, Reside
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2022-02-11 12:23:02
    DefinitionShort: (derivative of {L:σκηνόω} ‘to take up residence,’ {D:85.75}) a place where one may dwell, with the possible implication in certain contexts of something which is of temporary duration
    Glosses: ['dwelling place', 'temporary dwelling place']
    Comments: An alternative reading of the expression σκήνωμα τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰακώβ ‘dwelling place for the people of Jacob’ in {S:04400704600020} has θεῷ for οἴκῳ (see {D:7.8}) and the consequent translation ‘a house for the God of Jacob.’|For another interpretation of σκήνωμα in {S:06100101400016}, see {D:8.5}.
  LEXReferences: ACTs 7:46, 2PET 1:14
3. LEXID: 004542001003000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 8.5
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Body, Body Parts, and Body Products
  LEXSubDomains: Body
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2022-02-11 12:23:02
    DefinitionShort: (figurative extension of meaning of {L:σκήνωμα}[a] ‘temporary dwelling,’ {D:7.8}) temporary habitation in the human body
    Glosses: body
    Comments: Only rarely can one preserve in translation the figurative meanings suggested by the terms {L:σκῆνος} and σκήνωμα. What is significant in such contexts is the temporary nature of the dwelling, and therefore the relatively brief time which the body is to serve the person who dwells in it. In some cases it may be relevant, therefore, to have a footnote to point out the temporal aspects of this figurative usage of {L:σκῆνος} and σκήνωμα[c] .|It is also possible to interpret σκήνωμα in {S:06100101400016} as meaning a temporary habitation, though referring, of course, to the human body (see {D:85.77}).
  LEXReferences: 2PET 1:13, 2PET 1:14
  LEXLinks: realia:3.2
4. LEXID: 004542001004000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 23.91
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Physiological Processes and States
  LEXSubDomains: Live, Die
  LEXCollocations: εἶναι ἐν σκηνώματι
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2022-02-11 12:23:02
    DefinitionShort: (an idiom, literally: to be in a dwelling, see {D:7.8}) to be alive, with special emphasis upon physical existence on earth
    Glosses: to be alive
    Comments: Most languages have rather generic expressions for ‘life’ or ‘to live,’ but sometimes there are idiomatic expressions which may readily fit the types of contexts illustrated by {S:04700500600014} and {S:06100101300020}, for example, ‘to have strength,’ ‘to have one’s eyes,’ and ‘to walk about on the earth.’
  LEXReferences: 2PET 1:13