SCENOPEGIA, a Greek Word1, which properly signifies the rearing of Tents, and which is used for the Feast of Tabernacles, in which the Hebrews dwelt under green Tents for eight Days, in Commemoration of the Pilgrimage of their Fathers in the Wilderness, where they lodged under Tents for forty Years. Levit. xxiii. 34, 35, &c. See TABERNACLE and FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
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John vii. 33. Σκηνοπηγία, Scenopegia. Tabernaculorum erectio, seu tentorii fixio. ↩