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the rendering in the A.V. of ñֹêְ sok (Psa_27:5; elsewhere “tabernacle,” “den,” or “covert,” which last is the literal meaning), or ñֻëָּä (2Sa_22:12; 1Ki_20:12; 1Ki_20:16; Psa_18:11; Psa_31:20), sukkah, which signifies a booth, hut, formed of green boughs and branches interwoven (Gen_33:17; Jon_4:5). It, is rendered “booth” (Lev_23:40-43; Neh_8:15; Neh_8:17); “tabernacles” (Lev_23:34; Deu_16:13; Deu_16:16; Isa_4:6); “cottage” (Isa_1:8). It sometimes signifies tent, tents for soldiers; rendered “tent” (2Sa_11:11); “pavilions,” margin “tents” (1Ki_20:12; 1Ki_20:16)., SEE TENT. It is also used poetically for the dwelling of God (Psa_18:11), where the Psalmist sublimely describes Jehovah as surrounding himself with dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. as with a tent, or “pavilion” (Job_36:29). SEE TABERNACLE.
Among the Egyptians pavilions were built in a similar style to houses, though on a smaller scale, in various parts of the country, and in the foreign districts through which the Egyptian armies passed, for the use of the king; and some private houses occasionally imitated these small castles by substituting for the usual parapet wall and cornice the battlements that crowned them, and which were intended to represent Egyptian shields (Wilkinson, Anc. Egg. 1:23). The Hebrew word ùִׁôְøַéø , shaphrir, rendered “royal pavilion” (Jer_43:10), is properly throne- ornament, tapestry, with which a throne is hung. SEE THRONE.