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$
(
$
1
, 752) denotes “the administrative official,” with the
duty of preserving order and inviting persons to read or speak in the assembly, Mark
5:22, 35, 36, 38; Luke 8:49; 13:14; Acts 13:15; “chief ruler” (
KJV
) in Acts 18:8, 17.¶
Note:
In Luke 8:41, “ruler of the synagogue” represents
, “ruler,” followed by
the genitive case of the article and
$
.
SYROPHOENICIAN
$
or
$
$
(
\ $ &
, 4949) occurs in Mark 7:26 as the
national name of a woman called “a Canaanitish woman” in Matt. 15:22, i.e., not a
Jewess but a descendant of the early inhabitants of the coastland of Phoenicia. The word
probably denoted a Syrian residing in Phoenicia proper.¶ There is a tradition that the
woman’s name was Justa and her daughter Bernice (
)
B
, ii:19; iii:73).
In Acts 21:2, 3, the two parts of the term are used interchangeably.
T
TABERNACLE
1.
(
)
, 4633), “a tent, booth, tabernacle,” is used of (a) tents as dwellings,
Matt. 17:4; Mark 9:5; Luke 9:33; Heb. 11:9,
KJV
, “tabernacles” (
RV
, “tents”); (b) the
Mosaic tabernacle, Acts 7:44; Heb. 8:5; 9:1 (in some mss.); 9:8, 21, termed “the tent of
meeting,”
RV
(i.e., where the people were called to meet God), a preferable description to
“the tabernacle of the congregation,” as in the
KJV
in the OT; the outer part 9:2, 6; the
inner sanctuary, 9:3; (c) the heavenly prototype, Heb. 8:2; 9:11; Rev. 13:6; 15:5; 21:3 (of
its future descent); (d) the eternal abodes of the saints, Luke 16:9,
RV
, “tabernacles” (
KJV
,
“habitations”); (e) the Temple in Jerusalem, as continuing the service of the tabernacle,
Heb. 13:10; (f) the house of David, i.e., metaphorically of his people, Acts 15:16; (g) the
portable shrine of the god Moloch, Acts 7:43.¶
2.
(
, 4636), the equivalent of No. 1, is used metaphorically of the body
as the “tabernacle” of the soul, 2 Cor. 5:1, 4.¶
3.
(
)
, 4638) occurs in Acts 7:46; 2 Pet. 1:13, 14; see
HABITATION
,
No. 6.¶
4.
(
&
, 4634), properly “the setting up of tents or dwellings”
(No. 1, and
$
, “to fix”), represents the word “tabernacles” in “the feast of
tabernacles,” John 7:2.¶ This feast, one of the three Pilgrimage Feasts in Israel, is called
“the feast of ingathering” in Exod. 23:16; 34:22; it took place at the end of the year, and
all males were to attend at the “tabernacle” with their offerings. In Lev. 23:34; Deut.
16:13, 16; 31:10; 2 Chron. 8:13; Ezra 3:4 (cf. Neh. 8:14-18), it is called “the feast of
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.