Quick Definition
σκηνοπηγία, ας, ἡ n.f. the feast of tabernacles
Strong's Definition
from 4636 and 4078; the Festival of Tabernacles (so called from the custom of erecting booths for temporary homes)
KJV Usage: tabernacles
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | σκηνόω + πήγνυμι
51.10 · Festivals
festival of the tabernacles, celebration of the tents a Jewish festival commemorating God’s provision during the wanderings in the wilderness In some languages it may be useful to speak of the Festival of Tents as ‘the festival when people lived in tents.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σκηνοπηγία, -as, ἡ, (σκηνή and πήγνυμι, cf. Heb. viii. 2); 1. the construction of a tabernacle or tabernacles: ἡ τῆς χελιδόνος σκηνοπηγία, the skill of the swallow in building its nest, Aristot. h. a. 9, 7 [p. 612°, 22]. ὩΣ the feast of tabernacles: Jn. vii. 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.s. v. Month], 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. xxiii. 43), partly as a season of festivity and joy on the completion of the harvest and the vintage (Deut. xvi. 13) [‘the feast of ingathe.‘ng’ (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. viii. 15, 16), and to adorn them with flowers and fruits of all kinds (Lev. xxiii. 40), — under which, throughout the period of the festival, they feasted and gave themselves up to rejoicing. This feast is called N}D0 AN (ἡ) ἑορτὴ (τῆς) σκηνοπηγίας, Deut. xvi. 16; xxxi. 10; Zech. xiv. 16, 18 sq.; 1 Esdr. v. 50 (51); 1 Mace. x. 21; Joseph. antt. 4, 8,12; (ἡ) ἑορτὴ (τῶν) σκηνῶν, Ley. xxiii. 34; Deut. xvi. 13; [2 Chr. viii. 13; Ezra iii. 4]; 2 Mace. x. 6; σκηναί, Philo de septenar. § 24; ἡ σκηνοπηγία, 2 Mace. i. 9,18; once [twice] (Ex. xxiii. 16; [xxxiv. 22]) ONT IM, 1.6. ‘the feast of ingathering’ se. of fruits. [Cf. BB.DD. (esp. Ginsburg in Alex.’s Kitto) ; Edersheim, The Temple, ch. xiv.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
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, Jn. 7:2*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σκηνοπηγία, -ας, ἡ
(< σκηνή, πήγνυηι), [in LXX for סֻכּוֺת, De 16:16 31:10, Za 14:16, 18, 19; I Es 5:51, I Mac 10:21, II Mac 1:9, 18 * ;]
prop., the setting up of tents or dwellings (Arist.); in LXX and NT, ἡ σ., ἡ ἑορτή τῆς σ. (called also ἑορτὴ σκηνῶν, Le 23:34, al.; v. Deiss., LAE, 116 f.), the feast of Tabernacles: Jo 7:2.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σκηνοπηγία, lit. ‘‘feast of booth-making,” and applied to the Jewish ““Feast of Tabernacles” in Jn 7%, is regarded by WinerSchmiedel Gy. p. 23 as a coinage by Greek Jews, but it is found in Aristotle: see also the Cyrenaic inscr. C/G III. 53611 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 ἢ. 4.85, p. 115 f.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgia) — Feast|Festival of Booths. σκηνο-πηγία, ἡ, setting up of tents: nest-building, ἡ τῆς χελιδόνος σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. feast of tents or tabernacles, [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+]; σύλλογος τῆς σ. [Refs]