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- noun Plural form of
Tabernacle . - proper noun A particular Jewish holiday, coming each
autumn . - proper noun A particular Christian holiday based on the Jewish one.
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Examples
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Similarly the feast of Tabernacles, which is an autumn festival, is always mentioned as being held in the seventh month.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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Tabernacles, which is decisive in respect of rain; on New Year's Day, when all who come into the world pass before the Lord like sheep, as it is said (Ps. xxxiii.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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The impermanence of property is the universal lesson behind the Jewish observance of the festival of Sukkot, Tabernacles, which begins Wednesday night.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Quoting nameless "historians," website after website notes that the inspiration for the Pilgrim's thanksgiving feast was the Biblical Festival of Sukkot Tabernacles -- a fall festival that expresses gratitude for the harvest, for the land, and is celebrated in booths adorned with fall bounty and color, complete with feasting on seasonally appropriate fare.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Expanding Circles Of Thanks Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011
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Turns out, though, that the Bible's best holiday follows immediately afterward: the Festival of Sukkot Tabernacles.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Everything I Needed To Know, I Learned From My Kids And The Stars Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011
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The impermanence of property is the universal lesson behind the Jewish observance of the festival of Sukkot, Tabernacles, which begins Wednesday night.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Quoting nameless "historians," website after website notes that the inspiration for the Pilgrim's thanksgiving feast was the Biblical Festival of Sukkot Tabernacles -- a fall festival that expresses gratitude for the harvest, for the land, and is celebrated in booths adorned with fall bounty and color, complete with feasting on seasonally appropriate fare.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Expanding Circles Of Thanks Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011
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Feast of Tabernacles—The Feast of Tabernacles at the end of the harvest time gives a picture of the return of Jesus to earth.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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There's a wonderful array of them in a book called Tin Tabernacles: Corrugated Iron Mission Halls, Churches and Chapels of Britain, by Ian Smith, published in 2004.
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We used to partner with a Messianic Jewish congregation to put on a Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) celebration.
Whatever your theology — or even if you have no theology: « Dating Jesus 2009
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