tabernacle of testimony: Exo 25:16, Exo 26:33, Exo 40:3; Num 1:50, Num 1:53, Num 9:15, Num 10:11, Num 17:7-8, Num 18:2; 2Ch 24:6; Act 7:44; Rev 11:19; The word tabernacle is used in many different senses, and signifies:
1. A tent or pavilion - Num 24:5; Mat 17:4
2. A house or dwelling - Job 11:4, Job 22:23
3. A kind of tent, which is designated, to speak after the manner of the men, the palace of the Most High, the dwelling of the God of Israel - Exo 26:1; Heb 9:2-3
4. Christ's human nature, of which the Jewish tabernacle was a type, wherein God dwells really, substantially, and personally - Heb 8:2, Heb 9:11
5. The true church militant - Psa 15:1
6. Our natural body, in which the soul lodges as in a tabernacle - 2Co 5:1; 2Pe 1:13
7. The token of God's gracious presence - Rev 21:3