ΣΚΗΝΟΠΗΓΙΑΣ, σκηνοπηγιας
SKĒNOPĒGIAS, skēnopēgias
Sounds Like: skay-no-pay-GHEE-as
Translations: (of) the Feast of Tabernacles, (of) the Feast of Booths
From the root: ΣΚΗΝΟΠΗΓΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the Feast of Tabernacles, also known as the Feast of Booths, an important Jewish festival. It is a compound word derived from 'σκήνη' (skēnē), meaning 'tent' or 'tabernacle', and 'πηγία' (pēgia), related to 'πηγνύω' (pēgnýō), meaning 'to fix' or 'to pitch'. The festival commemorates the forty years the Israelites spent wandering in the desert after the Exodus, living in temporary shelters or booths.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Unknown: Yes
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 19:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 16:16, 31:10
- Ezra (Alpha) — 5:50
- 1 Maccabees — 10:21
- 2 Maccabees — 1:9, 1:18
- Zechariah — 14:16, 14:18, 14:19
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΚΗΝΟΠΗΓΙΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΚΗΝΟΠΗΓΙΑΝ — Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Booths, a Feast of Tabernacles, a Feast of Booths
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