Quick Definition
σκῆνος, ους, τό n.n. a tent
Strong's Definition
from 4633; a hut or temporary residence, i.e. (figuratively) the human body (as the abode of the spirit)
KJV Usage: tabernacle
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ους | σκηνόω
8.5 · Body, Body Parts, and Body Products · Body
body (figurative extension of meaning of σκῆνος ‘tent,’ not occurring in the NT) temporary habitation in the human body Only rarely can one preserve in translation the figurative meanings suggested by the terms σκῆνος and σκήνωμα. What is significant in such contexts is the temporary nature of the dwelling, and therefore the relatively brief time which the body is to serve the person who dwells in it. In some cases it may be relevant, therefore, to have a footnote to point out the temporal aspects of this figurative usage of σκῆνος and σκήνωμα[c] .
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σκῆνος, -ous, τό, [Hippocr., Plat., al.], a tabernacle, a tent, everywhere [exc. Boeckh, Corp. inserr. vol. ii. no. 3071] used metaph. of the human body, in which the soul dwells as in a tent, and which is taken down at death: 2 Co. v. 4; ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους, i. 6. 6 ἐστι τὸ σκῆνος [W. § ὅ9, 7d., 8 ἃ.}, which is the well-known tent, ibid. 1 [R. V. the earthly house of our tabernacle]. Cf. Sap. ix. 15 and Grimm ad loc.; in the same sense in (Plat.) Tim. Locr. p. 100 sqq. and often in other philosophic writ.; cf. Fischer, Index to Aeschin. dial. Socr.; Passow s. v.; [ Field, Otium Norv. pars ili. p. 113 (on 2 Co. v. 1)].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σκῆνος skēnos 2x
a tent, tabernacle, lodging; met. the corporeal tabernacle, 2 Cor. 5:1, 4*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** σκῆνος, -ους, τό
[in LXX: Wi 9:15 * ;]
= σκηνή,
a tent, tabernacle (C.I., 3071). Metaph., of the body as the tabernacle of the soul: II Co 5:1, 4.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σκῆνος. For σκῆνος, ‘‘tent, tabernacle,’ body, as the dwelling-place of the soul, in 2 Cor 5! 4, see the exx. from Pythagorean philosophy in Field Moves, p. 183, and the sepulchral epigram, δ γί, Mus. Znserr. IV. (1916), No. 1114, placed over a recumbent skeleton— 66 ? used metaph. of the Εἰπεῖν τίς δύναται, σκῆνος λιπόσαρκον ἀθρήσας, εἴπερ Ὕλας ἢ Θερσίτης ἦν, ὦ παροδεῖτα ; , σκηνοω
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σκῆνος (skēnos) — tent. σκῆνος, Doric dialect σκᾶνος, εος, τό,= σκηνή, hut, tent, [Refs]
II. the body (as the tabernacle of the soul), [NT+5th c.BC+]; σ. [μελίσσης] [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.2. dead body, corpse, [Refs], etc.; of an animal, μόσχου, ταύρων, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]