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skēnopoios

tentmaker

Say it: skay-nop-oy-OS (approximate)

σκηνοποιός

What it means

A maker of tents, from skēnē (tent) and poieō (make). Paul, Aquila, and Priscilla were tentmakers (18:3). Some think it means a worker in leather or goat-hair cloth more generally. It occurs only here in the New Testament.

Range of meaning

  • TentmakerA maker of tents.
  • LeatherworkerOne who works with leather or cloth.

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Verses where G4635 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources