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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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Showing verses 61–64 of 64 · 66 word occurrences in this result

Jeremiah 49:29
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:29 · retained source text

Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shal take to themselues their curtaines and all their vessels, and their camels, and they shal crie vnto them, Feare is on euery side.

Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Habakkuk 3:7 · retained source text

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtaines of the land of Midian did tremble.

1611 marginal noteOr, Ethiopia.

1611 marginal noteOr, vnder affliction or vanitie.

Zechariah 12:7
The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
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1611 witness · Zechariah 12:7 · retained source text

The LORD also shall saue the tents of Iudah first, that the glory of the house of Dauid, and the glory of the inhabitants of Ierusalem do not magnifie themselues against Iudah.

Zechariah 14:15
And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
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1611 witness · Zechariah 14:15 · retained source text

And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camell, and of the asse, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

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