tabernacles in English

noun
1
(in biblical use) a fixed or movable habitation, typically of light construction.
During this festival, the Hebrews dwelled in booths or tabernacles made of branches, which symbolized God's protection during their wilderness travels.
2
a meeting place for worship used by some Protestants or Mormons.
When I want consciousness expansion, I go to my local tabernacle and I sing!
3
an ornamented receptacle or cabinet in which a pyx or ciborium containing the reserved sacrament may be placed in Catholic churches, usually on or above an altar.
The enormous crucifix fixed on the wall behind the altar and above the golden tabernacle portrayed the death of Jesus Christ, the son of the Lord God, in a solemn and very sacred manner.
4
a partly open socket or double post on a sailboat's deck into which a mast is fixed, with a pivot near the top so that the mast can be lowered.

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1. The second is to obtain tabernacles of flesh and bones.

2. Our workshops produce Gospel Bookcovers, Tabernacles, Holy Table Crosses, Vigil Lamps, Analogions etc

3. He then came into Jerusalem for the Festival of Tabernacles “not openly but as in secret.”

4. 1 Tabernacles / Aumbries Thumbnails Previous Next Play Slideshow Enlarge Exit Loading Photos… Church of St.Therese; Wilson, NCMahogany tabernacle designed to match the church’s reredos

5. For instance, we read: “When by now the festival [of tabernacles] was half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.

6. These Aumbries should conform in general to the requirements for tabernacles including an ever-burning light and covering with a veil

7. Booths were erected also at the feast of Tabernacles (q.v.), Leviticus 23:42 Leviticus 23:43, which commemorated the abode of the Israelites in the wilderness

8. Building, in 1517, did not call it a temple but a “large ciborium of marble,” thus linking it to the tradition of sacramental shelters, Baldachins and tabernacles, often in small scale

9. Etrog Citrons are grown for the Jewish harvest festival Sukkot (Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles), which is a Biblical holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei following Yom Kippur

10. In the liturgy for the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, he is credited with gathering the prayers of the faithful, making a garland of such prayers, and then "adjuring them to ascend as an orb to the supreme King of Kings".

11. All the Ornaments of the Church, altars, pyxes, Aumbries, and tabernacles, crosses, roods, images, lights, fonts, holy water stoops, banners, thuribles and so on, which were in legal use in the second year of Edward VI, are still to be ‘in use.’

12. A'-mi-a-b'-l (yedhidh, "beloved"): Applied to the tabernacle or tent of meeting "How Amiable ("lovely" the Revised Version, margin) are thy tabernacles" (), the plural having reference to the subdivisions and appurtenances of the sanctuary (compare Psalm 68:35).The adjective is rendered "Amiable" in the sense of the French Amiable, lovely; but the usage of the Hebrew word requires it