| 单词 | tabernacle of witness |
| 释义 | > as lemmastabernacle of witness a. spec. in Jewish History. The curtained tent, containing the Ark of the Covenant and other sacred appointments, which served as the portable sanctuary of the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness and afterwards till the building of the Temple. Also called tabernacle of the congregation (or tabernacle of the meeting), tabernacle of testimony, and tabernacle of witness. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Ark of the Covenant > [noun] > covering for tabernaclea1325 propitiatorya1382 Mercy seat1530 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3174 Gold and siluer he hauen vt brogt, Ðe tabernacle dor-wið wurd wrogt. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 236 Aaron and his children þet serueden ine þe tabernacle. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. v. 6 And ye Leuites toke the Arke, & broughte it vp with the Tabernacle of witnesse, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiv. 219 The Tabernacle was a moveable Temple. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. vii. 164 The most remarkable vestige of the nomadic state of the nation was the Tabernacle or Tent..the shelter of the Ark. < as lemmas |
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