Tabernacles

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of tabernacle form-of, plural
  2. 2
    a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A particular Jewish holiday, coming each autumn.
  2. 2
    A particular Christian holiday based on the Jewish one.

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feast of boothsfeast of tabernaclessuccossuccossuccothsukkot

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"Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharaoh cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses."

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