Tabernacle

Quick meaning: Tabernacle is a noun meaning Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.

Meaning

Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.

More Meanings

1. (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
2. (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
3. Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
4. A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
5. (originally Methodism) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
6. (by extension) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
7. (Roman Catholicism) A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.

Example Sentences

The tabernacles of robbers proſper, and they that prouoke God are ſecure, into whoſe hand God bringeth abundantly.

What mortal man cannot determine, that is determined by the Olympian father through his child, in whom are tabernacled loveliness, augustness, strength, and graciousness[…]

The tabernacle is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.

It was over these innocent necessary precautions that the local committees always showed their meanness. They liked giving over only one contribution to the evangelist, but they wanted nothing said about it till they themselves had been taken care of--till the rent of the hall or the cost of building a tabernacle, the heat, the lights, the advertising, and other expenses had been paid.

Word Forms

• tabernacles
• tabernacling
• tabernacled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sukkoth, succos, sanctuary, shrine, temple, chapel.

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