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tabernacle

  1. gur mchog

    [lit. tent + perfect]

    Biblical: tabernacle; the portable sanctuary in which God met with the Israelites: gur mchog sgreng bar dgos/  set up the tabernacle (Ex. 40:2), dpang po'i gur mchog the tabernacle of the Testimony (Acts 7:44), gur mchog dngos ma/  the true tabernacle (Heb. 8:2).

  2. spyil bu'i dus chen/ 

    [lit. hut + festival]

    Biblical: the week-long harvest festival of the Jews; during which the people dwelt in huts or "tabernacles": ya hu da pa'i spyil bu'i dus chen nye bas/  the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near (Jn. 7:2).