The word in Scripture

Tabernacle in the Bible

The word tabernacle appears 328 times in the King James Version of the Bible. The tabernacle was God's tent among His people in the wilderness. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What tabernacle means in the Bible

The tabernacle was God's tent among His people in the wilderness.

Where the word tabernacle appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word tabernacle appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.”Psalms 61:4

“Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;”Psalms 132:3

“The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.”Proverbs 14:11

“And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.”Isaiah 4:6

“A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.”Hebrews 8:2

“For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.”Hebrews 9:2

“And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.”Revelation 13:6

“And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:”Revelation 15:5