What does σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgía) mean in the Bible?
σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgía): Seven-day Jewish harvest festival celebrating wilderness wandering; commemorates God's provision during exodus.
Greek · G4634
σκηνοπηγία
Feast|Festival of Booths
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σκηνοπηγία G4634
Pronunciation skēnopēgía
What does σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgía) mean in the Bible?
σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgía): Seven-day Jewish harvest festival celebrating wilderness wandering; commemorates God's provision during exodus.
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How does the BSB render G4634?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include Tabernacles (1).
Where does σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at John 7:2. Its strongest book concentrations include John (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It Tabernacles 1× John 7:2
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First aligned row John 7:2
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
John 1
Source forms
σκηνοπηγία 1x skēnopēgia John 7:2
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x John 7:2
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Seven-day Jewish harvest festival celebrating wilderness wandering; commemorates God's provision during exodus.
Strong's G4634
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link John 7:2 Source Gloss
Feast|Festival of Booths
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Seven-day Jewish harvest festival celebrating wilderness wandering; commemorates God's provision during exodus.
(σκηνή, πήγνυηι), [in LXX for סֻכָּה, Deu.16:16 31:10, Zec.14:16, 18-19; I Est.5:51, 1Ma.10:21, 2Ma.1:9 2Mac 1:18 * ;] prop., the setting up of tents or dwellings (Arist.); in LXX and NT, ἡ σ., ἡ ἑορτή τῆς σ. (called also ἑορτὴ σκηνῶν, Lev.23:34, al.; see Deiss., LAE, 116 f.), the feast of Tabernacles: Jhn.7:2.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
John 7:2 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
σκηνοπηγία. skhnophgia
the feast of tabernacles
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Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Nominative (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine John 7:2 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
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Biblical Witnesses
Major Jewish festival celebrating dwelling in temporary booths, commemorating wilderness wanderings
Word Origins
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain