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Feast of Tabernacles   Listen
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Tabernacle  n.  
1.
A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent. "Dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob." "Orange trees planted in the ground, and secured in winter with a wooden tabernacle and stoves."
2.
(Jewish Antiq.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
3.
Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
4.
Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul. "Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle."
5.
Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept. Specifically:
(a)
The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
(b)
A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
(c)
Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
(d)
A tryptich for sacred imagery.
(e)
A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
6.
(Naut.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
Feast of Tabernacles (Jewish Antiq.), one of the three principal festivals of the Jews, lasting seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths formed of the boughs of trees, in commemoration of the habitation of their ancestors in similar dwellings during their pilgrimage in the wilderness.
Tabernacle work, rich canopy work like that over the head of niches, used over seats or stalls, or over sepulchral monuments.





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"Feast of tabernacles" Quotes from Famous Books



... resolved upon by those who at that time had the direction of the sect. As these journeys were ordinarily made by caravan at the time of the feasts, we now suppose, with all manner of likelihood, that the return in question took place at the Feast of Tabernacles at the close of the year 33, or the Paschal Feast of the year 34. Galilee was thus abandoned by Christianity, and abandoned forever. The little Church which remained there continued, no doubt, to exist; but we hear ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various
... why we, a nation who garners one of the richest harvests of the world, do not have a national harvest festival. How effectively and fittingly, for instance, something similar to the old Jewish feast of tabernacles might be celebrated in this part of the country! In the earliest days of their history the Jews were commanded, when the year's harvest had been gathered, to take the boughs of goodly trees, of palm-trees and willows, and to construct booths in which they ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour
... to unite with their masters three times in every year in celebrating the Passover, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of Tabernacles; every male throughout the land was to appear before the Lord at Jerusalem with a gift; here the bond and the free stood ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... now appear in the Jewish Lectionary, and we know no reason for its omission now, if it was included before. In any case what He said about it, He said as the Exhorter[4]. They divided the Law into 53 or 54 portions, and read the whole of them between one Feast of Tabernacles and the next, whether the Sabbaths were 50 or more. Each portion was divided into seven parts, read by seven different Readers (a Priest and a Levite being the first two). This Lesson apparently stood alone until in B.C. ...
— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson
... a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton


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