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tents

Meaning of “tents”

Portable shelters or dwellings; by association, the dwellings or encampment of a household or people.

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66 occurrences64 verses18 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 4:20

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Judges 6:5
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
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1611 witness · Judges 6:5 · retained source text

For they came vp with their cattell and their tents, and they came as Grashoppers for multitude, for both they and their camels were without number: and they entred into the land to destroy it.

Judges 8:11
¶ And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
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1611 witness · Judges 8:11 · retained source text

¶ And Gideon went vp by the way of them that dwelt in tents, on the East of Nobah, and Iogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

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