Greek verb · G4637
σκηνόω
skenooskay-no'-o
to dwell
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skēnóō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4637is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4637
to tent or encamp, i.e. (figuratively) to occupy (as a mansion) or (specially), to reside (as God did in the Tabernacle of old, a symbol of protection and communion)
The King James renders it: dwell.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
skenoo is rendered "to dwell". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14ἐσκήνωσεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's five uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- dwelling2
- He dwelt1
- He will tabernacle1
- will tabernacle1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκηνή | skene | tent | Uses20 |
| σκήνωμα | skenoma | tent | Uses3 |
| σκῆνος | skenos | tent | Uses2 |
| σκηνοπηγία | skenopegia | Feast|Festival of Booths | Uses1 |
| σκηνοποιός | skenopoios | tentmaker | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σκηνώσει2
- ἐσκήνωσεν1
- σκηνοῦντας1
- σκηνοῦντες1
The grammar of each form
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-FAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-PAP-APM
- verb · present active, participle · vocative (address) · masculine plural1V-PAP-VPM
John
one use
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- ἐσκήνωσενeskenosenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He dwelt
Revelation
four uses
For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.
- σκηνώσειskenoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will tabernacle
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”
- σκηνοῦντεςskenountesverb · present active, participle · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: dwelling
And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.
- σκηνοῦνταςskenountasverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: dwelling
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
- σκηνώσειskenoseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He will tabernacle
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.