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σκηνοποιός

skēnopoiós · G4635 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. tentmaker

    One who makes tents as an occupation

    Examples

    Acts 18:3 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent-makers by trade.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Tentmaker7.10
The noun names Paul's own trade. Luke records that Paul stayed with Aquila and Priscilla “because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent-makers by trade” (Acts 18:3).
Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σκηνή skēnḗ · G4633 · tent, tabernacle tent · 20×σκηνόω skēnóō · G4637 · to take up residence, to come to reside, to come to dwell · 5×κατασκηνόω kataskēnóō · G2681 · to nest · 4×πυκνός pyknós · G4437 · often, frequent, so often · 3×σκήνωμα skḗnōma · G4638 · dwelling, dwelling place, temporary dwelling place · 3×κατασκήνωσις kataskḗnōsis · G2682 · nest · 2×σκῆνος skēnos · G4636 · body · 2×ἐπισκηνόω episkēnóō · G1981 · to take up residence, to come to reside, to come to dwell · 1×σκηνοπηγία skēnopēgía · G4634 · festival of the tabernacles, celebration of the tents · 1×σκηνοποιόςskēnopoiós · G4635
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σκηνοποιου, ὁ (σκηνή and ποιέω), a tent-real'cf, equivalent to σκηνορραφος (Aelian v. h.…
σκηνοποιου, ὁ (σκηνή and ποιέω), a tent-real'cf, equivalent to σκηνορραφος (Aelian v. h. 2, 1); one that made small portable tents, of leather or cloth of goats' hair (Latincilicium) or linen, for the use of travellers: Acts 18:3 (cf. Meyer at the passage; Woldemar Schmidt in Herzog edition 2 vol. xi., p. 359f).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Buildings1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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