tabernacles
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tabernacles noun
- Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
- The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
- (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
- Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
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