σκηνοπηγία, σκηνοπηγίας, ἡ (σκηνή and πήγνυμι, cf. Heb_8:2); 1. the construction of a tabernacle or tabernacles: ἡ τῆς χελιδονος, the skill of the swallow in building its nest, Aristotle, h. a. 9, 7 (p. 612{b} , 22). 2. the feast of tabernacles: Joh_7:2. This festival was observed by the Jews yearly for seven days, beginning with the 15th of the month Tisri (i. e. approximately, Oct.; cf. BB. DD., under the word ), partly to perpetuate the memory of the time when their ancestors after leaving Egypt dwelt in tents on their way through the Arabian desert (Lev_23:43), partly as a season of festivity and joy on the completion of the harvest and the vintage (Deu_16:13) ('the feast of ingathering' (see below)). In celebrating the festival the Jews were accustomed to construct booths of the leafy branches of trees either on the roofs or in the courts of their dwellings, or in the streets and squares (Neh_8:15-16), and to adorn them with flowers and fruits of all kinds (Lev_23:40) under which, throughout the period of the festival, they feasted and gave themselves up to rejoicing. This feast is called δΗρΛΜλΜεϊ ηΗβ (ἡ) ἑορτή (τῆς) σκηνοπηγίας, Deu_16:16; Deu_31:10; Zec_14:16; Zec_14:18; 1Es_5:50 (51); 1Ma_10:21; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 12; (ἡ) ἑορτή (τῶν) σκηνῶν, Lev_23:34; Deu_16:13; (2Ch_8:13; Ezr_3:4); 2Ma_10:6; σκηναί, Philo de septenar. § 24; ἡ σκηνοπηγία, 2Ma_1:9; 2Ma_1:18; once (twice) (Exo_23:16; (Exo_34:22)) δΗΰΘρΔισ ηΗβ, i. e. 'the feast of ingathering' namely, of fruits. (Cf. BB. DD. (especially Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto); Edersheim, The Temple, chapter xiv.)

σκηνοπηγία skēnopēgia 1x pr. a pitching of tents or booths; hence, the feast of tabernacles or booths, instituted in memory of the forty years wandering of the Israelites in the desert, and as a season of gratitude for the ingathering of harvest, celebrated for eight days, commencing on the 15th of Tisri, Joh_7:2

σκηνοπηγία , -ας , ἡ ( < σκηνή , πήγνυηι ), [in LXX for H5521 , Deu_16:16 ; Deu_31:10 , Zec_14:16 ; Zec_14:18-19 ; 1Es_5:51 , 1Ma_10:21 , 2Ma_1:9 ; 2Ma_1:18 * ;] prop ., the setting up of tents or dwellings ( Arist .); in LXX and NT, ἡ σ ., ἡ ἑορτή τῆς σ . (called also ἑορτὴ σκηνῶν , Lev_23:34 , al. ; v. Deiss., LAE , 116 f .), the feast of Tabernacles: Joh_7:2 .†

σκηνοπηγία [page 577] lit. feast of booth-making, and applied to the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles in Joh_7:2 , is regarded by Winer-Schmiedel Gr. p. 23 as a coinage by Greek Jews, but it is found in Aristotle : see also the Cyrenaic inscr. CIG III. 5361 .1 ἐπὶ συλλόγου τῆς σκηνοπηγίας . Σκανοπαγείσθων , let them erect a booth, occurs in a Coan religious inscr. of ii/B.C. : see Deissmann s discussion in LAE 2 , p. 115 f.

σκηνοπηγία σκηνο-πηγία, ἡ, [Etym: πήγνυμι] "a setting up of tents: the Feast of Tents or Tabernacles", NTest.

σκηνοπηγία, -ας, ἡ (σκηνή, πήγνυηι), [in LXX for סֻכָּה, Deu.16:16 31:10, Zec.14:16, 18-19; I Est.5:51, 1Ma.10:21, 2Ma.1:9 2Mac 1:18 * ;] prop., the setting up of tents or dwellings (Arist.); in LXX and NT, ἡ σ., ἡ ἑορτή τῆς σ. (called also ἑορτὴ σκηνῶν, Lev.23:34, al.; see Deiss., LAE, 116 f.), the feast of Tabernacles: Jhn.7:2.† (AS)