Topic
Tents
40 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 4:20Torrey Origin and antiquity of
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
- Genesis 13:5Torrey WERE USED BY — Patriarchs
¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- Genesis 13:10Torrey WERE PITCHED — In the neighbourhood of wells, &c
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
- Genesis 13:12Torrey WERE PITCHED — In the neighbourhood of wells, &c
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
- Genesis 18:1Torrey WERE PITCHED — Under trees
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- Genesis 18:4Torrey WERE PITCHED — Under trees
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
- Genesis 24:67Torrey Separate, for females of the family
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 25:27Torrey WERE USED BY — Patriarchs
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
- Genesis 26:17Torrey WERE PITCHED — In the neighbourhood of wells, &c
¶ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- Genesis 26:18Torrey WERE PITCHED — In the neighbourhood of wells, &c
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Genesis 31:33Torrey Separate, for the servants
And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
- Exodus 33:8Torrey WERE USED BY — Israel in the desert
And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
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- Numbers 1:52 Torrey WERE PITCHED — With order and regularity
- Numbers 24:2 Torrey WERE USED BY — Israel in the desert
- Numbers 24:5 Torrey CALLED — Tabernacles
- Deuteronomy 1:33 Torrey Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to
- Judges 4:5 Torrey WERE PITCHED — Under trees
- Judges 4:20 Torrey Custom of sitting and standing at the door of
- Judges 4:21 Torrey Fastened by cords to stakes or nails
- Judges 6:5 Torrey WERE USED BY — All eastern nations
- 1 Samuel 4:3 Torrey WERE USED BY — The people of Israel in all their wars
- 1 Samuel 4:10 Torrey WERE USED BY — The people of Israel in all their wars
- 1 Samuel 17:4 Torrey WERE USED BY — All eastern nations
- 1 Samuel 29:1 Torrey WERE USED BY — The people of Israel in all their wars
- 2 Samuel 16:22 Torrey WERE PITCHED — On the tops of houses
- 1 Kings 16:16 Torrey WERE USED BY — The people of Israel in all their wars
- 2 Kings 7:7 Torrey WERE USED BY — All eastern nations
- 1 Chronicles 5:10 Torrey WERE USED BY — All eastern nations
- Job 12:6 Torrey CALLED — Tabernacles
- Song of Songs 1:5 Torrey Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs
- Song of Songs 1:8 Torrey WERE USED BY — Shepherds while tending their flocks
- Isaiah 13:20 Torrey WERE USED BY — The Arabs
- Isaiah 38:12 Torrey WERE USED BY — Shepherds while tending their flocks
- Isaiah 40:22 Torrey Were spread out
- Isaiah 54:2 Torrey CALLED — Curtains
- Jeremiah 10:20 Torrey Fastened by cords to stakes or nails
- Jeremiah 35:7 Torrey WERE USED BY — The Rechabites
- Jeremiah 35:10 Torrey WERE USED BY — The Rechabites
- Hebrews 3:7 Torrey CALLED — Curtains
- Hebrews 11:9 Torrey CALLED — Tabernacles
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 48 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Origin and antiquity of Ge 4:20
- CALLED
- Were spread out Isa 40:22
- Fastened by cords to stakes or nails Isa 54:2; Jer 10:20; Jud 4:21
- WERE USED BY
- Separate, for females of the family Ge 24:67
- Separate, for the servants Ge 31:33
- WERE PITCHED
- Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to De 1:33
- Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to Isa 38:12
- Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs Nu 24:5; So 1:5
- Custom of sitting and standing at the door of Ge 18:1; Jud 4:20
- ILLUSTRATIVE
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.