KJV dictionary & concordance
Portable shelters or dwellings; by association, the dwellings or encampment of a household or people.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 4:20
Complete exact-word concordance
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Let their habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.
1611 marginal noteHebr. their palace.
1611 marginal noteHebr. let there not bee a dweller.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and diuided them an inheritance by line: and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
1611 marginal noteIosu.13.7.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For a day in thy courts, is better then a thousand: I had rather be a doore keeper in the house of my God, then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse.
1611 marginal noteHeb. I would choose rather to sit at the threshold.
But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
But murmured in their tents: and hearkened not vnto the voyce of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteNum. 14.2.
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Woe is me, that I soiourne in Mesech: that I dwell in the tents of Kedar.
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