Word Summary
kataskēnoō: to pitch one's tent, encamp, dwell
Original Word: κατασκηνόωTransliteration: kataskēnoō
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-as-kay-no'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to pitch one's tent, encamp, dwell
Meaning: to pitch one's tent, encamp, dwell
Strong's Concordance
lodge, rest.
From kata and skenoo; to camp down, i.e. Haunt; figuratively, to remain -- lodge, rest.
see GREEK kata
see GREEK skenoo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2681: κατασκηνόωκατασκηνόω,
κατασκήνω, infinitive
κατασκηνοιν (
Matthew 13:32 L T Tr WH,
Mark 4:32 WH, see
ἀποδεκατόω; (but also
κατασκηνοῦν, Matthew, the passage cited
R G; Mark, the passage cited
R G L T Tr; cf.
Tdf. Proleg., p. 123)); future
κατασκηνωσόω; 1 aorist
κατεσκήνωσα; properly,
to pitch one's tent, to fix one's abode, to dwell:
ἐφ' ἐλπίδι,
Acts 2:26 from
Psalm 15:9 (); followed by ἐν with the dative of place, Matthew 13:32; Luke 13:19; ὑπό with the accusative of place, Mark 4:32. (Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus, others; κατεσκήνωσεν ὁ Θεός τῷ ναῷ τούτῳ, Josephus, Antiquities 3, 8, 5; add, Sir. 24:4, 8; the Sept. mostly for שָׁכַן.)