Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H168: אֹהֶל

ʼôhel · pronounced o'-hel · “tent”

Definition

a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)

KJV translates it as: covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.

Word origin: from H166 (אָהַל);

Extended definition

: tent
1) tent
1a) nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience
1b) dwelling, home, habitation
1c) the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)
Also means: o.hel (אֹ֫הֶל ": home" H0168H)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H168 is translated

  • the tent of ×167
  • tent ×55
  • his ×33
  • their ×17
  • your ×17
  • the tents of ×15
  • a tent ×11
  • tents ×8
  • towards ×8
  • my ×7
  • its ×4
  • the tents ×1

Bible verses with H168 (ʼôhel)

ʼôhel appears in 314 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 4:20

    And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

  • Genesis 9:21

    And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

  • Genesis 9:27

    God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

  • Genesis 12:8

    And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

  • Genesis 13:3

    And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;

  • Genesis 13:5

    And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

  • Genesis 18:1

    And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

  • Genesis 18:2

    And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

  • Genesis 18:6

    And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

  • Genesis 18:9

    And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

  • Genesis 18:10

    And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

  • Genesis 24:67

    And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

  • Genesis 25:27

    And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

  • Genesis 26:25

    And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

  • Genesis 31:25

    Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

  • Genesis 31:33

    And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

  • Genesis 31:34

    Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

  • Genesis 33:19

    And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

  • Genesis 35:21

    And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

  • Exodus 16:16

    This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

  • Exodus 18:7

    And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

  • Exodus 26:7

    And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

  • Exodus 26:9

    And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

  • Exodus 26:11

    And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

  • Exodus 26:12

    And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

All 314 references

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