The word in Scripture

Tent in the Bible

The word tent appears 98 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A tent is a temporary dwelling for the pilgrim people. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What tent means in the Bible

A tent is a temporary dwelling for the pilgrim people.

Where the word tent appears

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

“And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;”Genesis 18:1

“Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.”Genesis 31:25

“And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.”Exodus 26:12

“And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.”Exodus 40:19

“So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;”Psalms 78:60

“It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.”Isaiah 13:20

“It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:”Isaiah 40:22

“For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.”Jeremiah 37:10