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Webster 1913 Edition
Tabernacle
1.
A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
Dwelling in
tabernacles
with Isaac and Jacob. Heb. xi. 9.
Orange trees planted in the ground, and secured in winter with a wooden
tabernacle
and stoves. Evelyn.
2.
(Jewish Antiq.)
A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
Ex. xxvi.
3.
Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
Acts xv. 16.
4.
Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
Shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle
. 2 Pet. i. 14.
5.
Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
Specifically: –(a)
The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
(b)
A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
(c)
Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
(d)
A tryptich for sacred imagery.
(e)
A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
6.
(Naut.)
A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
Feast of Tabernacles
(Jewish Antiq.)
, one of the three principal festivals of the Jews, lasting seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths formed of the boughs of trees, in commemoration of the habitation of their ancestors in similar dwellings during their pilgrimage in the wilderness.
– Tabernacle work
, rich canopy work like that over the head of niches, used over seats or stalls, or over sepulchral monuments.
Oxf. Gloss.
Tab′er-na-cle
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tabernacled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabernacling
.] To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
He assumed our nature, and
tabernacled
among us in the flesh. Dr. J. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tabernacle
TAB'ERNACLE
,Noun.
1.
A tent. Num.24. Matt.17.2.
A temporary habitation.3.
Among the Jews, a movable building, so contrived as to be taken to pieces with ease and reconstructed, for the convenience of being carried during the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was of a rectangular figure, thirty cubits long, ten broad, and ten high. The interior was divided into two rooms by a vail or curtain, and it was covered with four different spreads or carpets.It is also applied to the temple. Ps.15.
4.
A place of worship; a sacred place.5.
Our natural body. 2 Cor.5. 2 Pet. 1.6.
God's gracious presence, or the tokens of it. Rev.21.7.
An ornamented chest placed on Roman catholic altars as a receptacle of the ciborium and pyxis.TAB'ERNACLE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
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See also: Tabernacle
English
Noun
tabernacle (plural tabernacles)
- Any temporary dwelling, a hut, tent, booth.
- (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 40:33–38:
- So Moses finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 40:33–38:
- (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
- Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
- A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
- A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a Roman Catholic church.
- 1997, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part II, Section 1183:
- The tabernacle is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.
- 1997, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part II, Section 1183:
- (US) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Chapter 13:
- It was over these innocent necessary precautions that the local committees always showed their meanness. They liked giving over only one contribution to the evangelist, but they wanted nothing said about it till they themselves had been taken care of--till the rent of the hall or the cost of building a tabernacle, the heat, the lights, the advertising, and other expenses had been paid.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Chapter 13:
- (by extension) Any house of worship; used especially of Mormon churches.
- (figuratively) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
- (nautical) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
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Translations
any temporary dwelling, a hut, tent, booth
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portable tent used before the construction of the temple
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the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem
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any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship
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sukkah
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small ornamented cupboard or box used for the sacrament of the Eucharist
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temporary place of worship, especially a tent
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nautical: device allowing for the easy folding of a mast
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