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Definition of Tabernacles

1. Noun. A major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness.

Definition of Tabernacles

1. Noun. (plural of Tabernacle) ¹

2. Proper noun. A particular Jewish holiday, coming each autumn. ¹

3. Proper noun. A particular Christian holiday based on the Jewish one. ¹

4. Noun. (plural of tabernacle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tabernacles

1. tabernacle [v] - See also: tabernacle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabernacles

Literary usage of Tabernacles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"The heathen nations, it is true, had such tabernacles or portable shrines ... It is far more likely that the heathens derived their tabernacles from that of ..."

2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"I. Different tabernacles in use among the Israelites.—IT. THE TABERNACLE, so called byway of ... Of the second of these tabernacles we are now to treat, ..."

3. The Teaching of Jesus about the Future According to the Synoptic Gospels by Henry Burton Sharman (1908)
"THE ETERNAL tabernacles Within one of the parables there is imbedded a reference of the most general kind to the future. It is a part of the parable of the ..."

4. Theology of the Old Testament by Gustav Friedrich Oehler, George Edward Day (1883)
"18, is undoubtedly founded on the kindred thought, that the keeping of the Feast of tabernacles is an expression on the part of the nations, ..."

5. From Manger to Throne: Embracing a New Life of Jesus the Christ and a by Thomas De Witt Talmage (1893)
"JESUS AT THE FEAST OK tabernacles. "^ OW long Jesus remained in Capernaum, on His visit there after l^^k returning from Caesarea Philippi, it is difficult ..."

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