Word Summary
skēnopoios: making tents
Original Word: σκηνοποιόςTransliteration: skēnopoios
Phonetic Spelling: (skay-nop-oy-os')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: making tents
Meaning: making tents
Strong's Concordance
tent-maker.
From skene and poieo; a manufacturer of tents -- tent-maker.
see GREEK skene
see GREEK poieo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4635: σκηνοποιόςσκηνοποιός,
σκηνοποιου,
ὁ (
σκηνή and
ποιέω),
a tent-real'cf, equivalent to
σκηνορραφος (
Aelian v. h. 2, 1); one that made small portable tents, of leather or cloth of goats' hair (Latin
cilicium) or linen, for the use of travellers:
Acts 18:3 (cf. Meyer at the passage; Woldemar
Schmidt in
Herzog edition 2 vol. xi., p. 359f).