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Strong's #4636 - σκῆνος
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- a tabernacle, a tent
- metaph. of the human body, in which the soul dwells as in a tent, and which is taken down at death
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σκῆνος,
Dor. σκᾶνος, εος, τό,= σκηνή,
hut, tent, CIG 3071 ( Teos ).
II the body (as the tabernacle of the soul), Hp. Cord. 7, Anat. 1, Democr. 37, 187, 223, al., Pl. Ax. 366a, Ti.Locr. 100a, 101c, 101e, 2 Corinthians 5:1; ς. [μελίσσης ] AP 9.404 ( Antiphil. ).
2. dead body, corpse, IG 3.1330, 12(5).591 ( Ceos ), CIG 3123 ( Teos ), etc.; of an animal, μόσχου, ταύρων, Nic. Al. 447, Th. 742 (pl.).
σκῆνος, σκήνους, τό (Hippocrates, Plato, others), a tabernacle, a tent, everywhere (except Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions vol. ii., no. 3071) used metaphorically, of the human body, in which the soul dwells as in a tent, and which is taken down at death: 2 Corinthians 5:4; ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους, i. e. ho esti τό σκῆνος (Winers Grammar, § 59, 7 d., 8 a.), which is the well-known tent, ibid. 1 (R. V. the earthly house of our tabernacle). Cf. Wis. 9:15 and Grimm at the passage; in the same sense in (Plato) Tim. Locr., p. 100ff and often in other philosophic writings; cf. Fischer, Index to Aeschines dial. Socrates; Passow, under the word; (Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 113 (on 2 Corinthians 5:1)).
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** σκῆνος , -ους , τό ,
[in LXX: Wisdom of Solomon 9:15 *;]
= σκηνή ,
a tent, tabernacle (C.1., 3071). Metaph., of the body as the tabernacle of the soul: 2 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:4.†
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It is hardly necessary to illustrate this common name, but cf. P Hib I. 112.81 (c. B.C. 260) Σ ]τέφανος Σατόκου, P Oxy III. 517.14 (A.D. 130) διὰ Στεφὰ (νου) γρ (αμμάτεως) σεση (μείωμαι), and P Giss I. 103.1 (Christian letter—iv/A.D.) Στεφάνῳ δι [ακόνῳ ἀγ ]α ̣π ̣ητ ̣ῷ υἱῷ.
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