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Easton's Bible Dictionary
A Chaldee word meaning resting-place, not found in Scripture,
but used by the later Jews to designate the visible symbol of God's presence in
the tabernacle, and afterwards in Solomon's temple. When the Lord led Israel out
of Egypt, he went before them "in a pillar of a cloud." This was the symbol of
his presence with his people. For references made to it during the wilderness
wanderings, see Exodus 14:20 ; 40:34 - 38 ; Leviticus 9:23 , 9:24 ; Numbers 14:10
; 16:19 , 16:42 .
It is probable that after the entrance into Canaan this glory-cloud settled in
the tabernacle upon the ark of the covenant in the most holy place. We have, however,
no special reference to it till the consecration of the temple by Solomon, when
it filled the whole house with its glory, so that the priests could not stand
to minister ( 1 Kings 8:10 - 13 ; 2 Chronicles , 1 Kings 5:13 , 5:14 ; 7:1 - 3
). Probably it remained in the first temple in the holy of holies as the symbol
of Jehovah's presence so long as that temple stood. It afterwards disappeared.
(See CLOUD .)
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(dwelling). This term is not found in the Bible. It was
used by the later Jews, and borrowed by Christians from them, to express the visible
majesty of the divine Presence especially when resting or dwelling between the
cherubim on the mercyseat. In the tabernacle and in the temple of Solomon, but
not in the second temple. The use of the term is first found in the Targums, where
it forms a frequent periphrasis for God, considered its dwelling among the children
of Israel. The idea which the different accounts in Scripture convey is that of
a most brilliant and glorious light, enveloped in a cloud, and usually concealed
by the cloud, so that the cloud itself was for the most part alone visible but
on particular occasions the glory appeared. The allusions in the New Testament
to the shechinah are not unfrequent. ( Luke 2:9 ; John 1:14 ; Romans 9:4 ) and
we are distinctly taught to connect it with the incarnation and future coming
of the Messiah as type with antitype.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
(FROM SHEKINAH)
she-ki'-na (shekhinah, "that which dwells," from the verb shakhen, or shakhan,
"to dwell," "reside"):
This word is not found in the Bible, but there are allusions to it in Isaiah 60:2
; Matthew 17:5 ; Luke 2:9 ; Romans 9:4. It is first found in the Targums.
See GLORY.
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