H168. ohel

אֹ֫הֶל‎₃₄₃ noun masculine^{Genesis 13:3} tent (compare Assyrian âlu, above, Arabic , fellow-dwellers, family, Sabean אהל‎ DHM^{ZMG 1883, 341} and others, also in proper names Sabean & Phoenician see אהליאב‎) — absolute ׳א‎ 4:20 +; construct id. Exodus 28:43 +; אֹ֫הֱלָה‎ (ה‎ locative) Genesis 18:6 +; suffix אָהֳלִי‎ Job 29:4 +; אָֽהָלִךָ‎ Psalm 61:5; אָֽהֳלֹה‎ Genesis 9:21 3t. (see Dr^{Sm xxxv}); plural אֹהָלִים‎ 13:5 + (Ges^{§ 23}. 3); בָֽאֳהָלִים‎ Judges 8:11 +; construct אָהֳלֵי‎ Numbers 16:26 +; suffix אֹהָלַי‎ Jeremiah 4:20; אֹהָלֶיךָ‎ Numbers 24:5 +; אָהֳלֵיכֶם‎ Joshua 22:8 +, etc. —

1 tent of nomad Song of Solomon 1:5; Jeremiah 6:3; 49:29; א ׳ישֵׁב‎ dweller in tents Genesis 4:20; 25:27 (J); מִקְנֶה אָהֳלֵי‎ tents of cattle2 Chronicles 14:14; of soldier 1 Samuel 17:54 compare Dr, Jeremiah 37:10; 1 Kings 8:66 ישׂראל לְאֹהָלֶיךָ,‎, exclamation, to thy tents, Israel ! 12:16 (twice in verse) compare 2 Chronicles 10:16; 2 Samuel 20:1 (but compare Dr, 1 Samuel 17:54); of pleasure-tent on house-top 2 Samuel 16:22 (= bridal-tent, bridal pavilion, compare חֻמָּה‎ Psalm 19:5; Joel 2:16 see RS^{Kinship 168}).

2 dwelling, habitation; Psalm 91:10 לְאֹהָלֶ֑ךָ‎ home (literally to thy tents, plural) Judges 19:9 (after הלך‎); בֵּיתִי ׳א‎ habitation of my house Psalm 132:3 compare Daniel 11:45; ׳א דוד‎ habitation or palace of David where throne erected Isaiah 16:5; ׳א צִיּוֺן בַת‎ h. of daughter of Zion (= Jerusalem) Lamentations 2:4; יַעֲקֹב אָהֲלֵי‎ Jeremiah 30:18; Malachi 2:12 ("" מִשְׁכָּן‎); ׳א יְהוּדָה‎ Zechariah 12:7 ("" דוד בית‎); ׳א רְשָׁעִים‎ h. of wicked Job 8:22, compare ׳א רֶשַׁע‎ Psalm 84:11, ׳א יְשָׁרִים‎ Proverbs 14:11; ׳א שֹׁחַד‎ Job 15:34; ׳א צַדִּיקִים‎ Psalm 118:15; ׳א אֱדוֺם‎ = Edom itself, 83:7 compare ׳א קְדָר‎ 120:5 ׳א כוּשָׁן‎ Habakkuk 3:7.

3 the sacred tent used in worship of God; הָאֹהֶל‎ the tent; ׳א מוֺעֵד‎ tent of meeting of God with his people (tent of congregation or assembly Ges MV and others) According to E Moses so called the tent which he used to pitch without the camp, afar off, into which he used to enter, & where God spake with him face to face, Exodus 33:7-11 Numbers 12:5, 10; Deuteronomy 31:14-15, J seems to have same conception of an ׳א ׳מ‎ outside the camp, Numbers 11:24, 26; D has no allusion to such a tent; P mentions it 131 t. as ׳א ׳מ‎; 19 t. as הָאֹהֶל‎ (compare Ezekiel 41:1) & ׳א הָעֵדוּת‎, tent of the testimony Numbers 9:15; Numbers 17:22; Numbers 17:23; 18:2 (as containing ark & tables of the testimony) compare 2 Chronicles 24:6; this tent sometimes confounded with the מִשְׁכָּן‎ but distinguished in א ׳מִשְׁכַּן ׳מ‎ Exodus 39:32; 40:2, 6, 29, compare 1 Chronicles 6:17; וְהָאֹהֶל הַמִּשְׁכָּן‎ Numbers 3:25; וְאֶתאָֿהֳלוֺ אֶתהַֿמִּשְׁכָּן‎ Exodus 35:11; tent was of three layers of skins, goatskins, ramskins, & tachash skins, each layer of eleven pieces stretched in form of a tent, covering & protecting the מִשְׁכָּן‎, which was in form of parallelopip. (Exodus 26). An מוֺעֵד אֹהֶל‎ was at Shilo 1 Samuel 2:22 (omitted ᵐ5‎; see Dr) compare Psalm 78:60, called ׳א יוֺסֵף‎ 78:67. The Mosaic ׳א ׳מ‎ was later at Gibeon 2 Chronicles 1:3, 6, 13; courses of ministry arranged for service at ׳א ׳מ‎ 1 Chronicles 6:17; 23:32 compare 9:19 (׳הָא‎), 9:21; 9:23 (הָא ׳בֵּית‎); David erected an אֹהֶל‎ for ark on Mt. Zion 2 Samuel 6:17; 1 Chronicles 15:1; 16:1; 2 Chronicles 1:4; Joab fled for refuge to ׳א יהוה‎ 1 Kings 2:28-30; sacred oil brought from ׳הָא‎ 1:39; the ׳א מוֺעֵד‎ was taken up into temple 8:4 2 Chronicles 5:5; ׳י‎ had not previously dwelt in a בַּיִת‎, but had gone אֶלאֹֿהֶל מֵאֹהֶל‎ from tent to tent, from one to another, 1 Chronicles 17:5, compare 2 Samuel 7:6; ׳א יהוה‎ ("" בַּיִת‎ & קֹדֶשׁ הַר‎) is refuge & dwelling-place of righteous, Psalm 15:1; 27:5; 27:6; 61:5 (compare 90:1).