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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



... been more than three months at the Jew's house when the Jewish festivals came round—New Year's Day, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles—which, falling near together and occupying many days, disturbed his ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... instance of the same. They were to be an agricultural people. Their very worship was (if you can understand such a thing now-a-days) to be agricultural. Pentecost was a feast of the first-fruits of the harvest. The Feast of Tabernacles was a great national harvest home. The Passover itself, though not at first an agricultural festival, became one by the waving of the Paschal sheaf, which gave permission to the people to begin their spring-harvest—so thoroughly were they to be an agricultural and cattle-feeding people. ...
— The Gospel of the Pentateuch • Charles Kingsley
... giving of the Law from Mount Sinai, on the fiftieth day from the departure out of Egypt. It is also called the Feast of Weeks, because it was kept seven weeks after the Passover. See Exodus xxxiv. 22, Leviticus xxiii. 15-21, Deuteronomy xvi. 9, 10. The Feast of Tabernacles, or Feast of Tents, was so called, because it was celebrated under tents or tabernacles of green boughs; and was designed to commemorate their dwelling in tents, during their passage through the wilderness. At this Feast, they also returned thanks to God, for the fruits of the earth, after they ...
— A Treatise on Domestic Economy - For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School • Catherine Esther Beecher
... with palm-leaves for the Easter ceremonies, as also the Israelites in Germany and Holland for the feast of Tabernacles. ...
— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black


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