Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to dwell
Usage: κατα-σκηνόω, -ῶ [in LXX chiefly for סָכַךְ ;] to pitch one's tent, lodge, dwell: before ἐν, Mat.13:32, Luk.13:19; ὑπό, with accusative, Mrk.4:32; ἐπ᾽ ἐλπιδι, Act.2:26 (LXX).† (AS)
Kataskenoo means “lodge” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2681 — chatsir (“court”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2681 κατασκηνόω (kataskenoo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kataskenoo (kat-as-kay-noh'-o) v. 1. to camp down, i.e. haunt 2. (figuratively) to remain It has 63 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include lodge and rest. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kataskenoo (kat-as-kay-noh'-o) v. 1. to camp down, i.e. haunt 2. (figuratively) to remain [from G2596 and G4637] KJV: lodge, rest Root(s): G2596, G4637
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to dwell
Usage: κατα-σκηνόω, -ῶ [in LXX chiefly for סָכַךְ ;] to pitch one's tent, lodge, dwell: before ἐν, Mat.13:32, Luk.13:19; ὑπό, with accusative, Mrk.4:32; ἐπ᾽ ἐλπιδι, Act.2:26 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kataskenoo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2681 (κατασκηνόω) appears 60 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
54 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
And ye shall not defile the land whereon ye dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.
And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in confidence, And God overshadows him always, And he rested between his shoulders.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians; The Lord of Israel, the most high Lord, hath made me king of the whole world,
Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations: And he that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely.
I dwelt in high places, And my throne is in a cloudy pillar.
First 63 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2681.
ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
And ye shall not defile the land whereon ye dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.
And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in confidence, And God overshadows him always, And he rested between his shoulders.
And Israel shall dwell in confidence Alone on the land of Jacob, With corn and wine; And the sky shall be misty with dew upon thee.
And now if the land of your possession be too little, cross over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord dwells, and receive ye an inheritance among us; and do not become apostates from God, neither do ye apostatize from the Lord, because of your having built an altar apart from the altar of the Lord our God.
And there was no deliverer, because the city is far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with men, and it is in the valley of the house of Rehob; and they built the city, and dwelt in it.
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell by themselves, and shall be no more distressed; and the son of iniquity shall no more afflict them, as he has done from the beginning,
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant him, and he shall dwell by himself, and shall no longer be anxious; and the son of iniquity shall no longer afflict him, as at the beginning,
For David said, The Lord God of Israel has given rest to his people, and has taken up his abode in Jerusalem forever.
And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.
And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: His excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
I chose out their way, and sat chief, And dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.
But let all that trust on thee be glad in thee: They shall exult forever, and thou shalt dwell among them; And all that love thy name shall rejoice in thee.
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; And let him trample my life on the ground, And lay my glory in the dust. Pause.
A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? And who shall dwell in thy holy mountain?
Therefore my heart rejoiced And my tongue exulted; Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: He has nourished me by the water of rest.
Hope in the Lord, and do good; And dwell on the land, and thou shalt be fed with the wealth of it.
Turn aside from evil, and do good; And dwell forever.
But the righteous shall inherit the earth, And dwell upon it forever.
Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and adopted; He shall dwell in thy courts; We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; Thy temple is holy.
Wherefore do ye conceive evil, ye swelling mountains? This is the mountain which God has delighted to dwell in; Yea, the Lord will dwell in it forever.
Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity captive, Thou hast received gifts for man, Yea, for they were rebellious, that thou mightest dwell among them.
And the seed of his servants shall possess it, And they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; Thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; This Mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelt.
And he cast out the nations from before them, And made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, His tent where he dwelt among men.
Moreover his salvation is near them that fear him; That glory may dwell in our land.
The children of thy servants shall dwell securely, And their seed shall prosper forever.
By them shall the birds of the sky lodge: They shall utter a voice out of the midst of the rocks.
Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.
If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, And sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain,
But he that hearkens to me shall dwell in confidence, And shall rest securely from all evil.
For the upright shall dwell in the earth, And the holy shall be left behind in it.
I wisdom have dwelt with counsel and knowledge, And I have called upon understanding.
For go ye to my place which is in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
In his days both Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Jehozadak among the prophets.
dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; thine end is come verily into thy bowels.
therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in thee with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.
and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;
And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was meat for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed of it.
and whose leaves were flourishing, and its fruit abundant (and it was meat for all; under it the wild beasts lodged, and the birds of the sky took shelter in its branches):
And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Zion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.
And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Zion.
Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonored. The pride of thy heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.
Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Bashan, and in the land of Gilead, as in the days of old.
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Zion: for, behold, I come, and will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
And many nations shall flee for refuge to the Lord in that day, and they shall be for a people to him, and they shall dwell in the midst of thee: and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to thee.
Thus saith the Lord; I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a true city, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty a holy mountain.
and I will bring them in, and cause them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God, in truth and in righteousness.
Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians; The Lord of Israel, the most high Lord, hath made me king of the whole world,
Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations: And he that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely.
I dwelt in high places, And my throne is in a cloudy pillar.
So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, And he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, And said, Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, And thine inheritance in Israel.
Whoso hearkeneth unto it shall never find rest, And never dwell quietly.
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Kataskenoo (Strong's G2681) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lodge". kataskenoo (kat-as-kay-noh'-o) v. 1. to camp down, i.e. haunt 2. (figuratively) to remain
This page currently indexes 63 linked usages for Strong's G2681 across 23 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2681 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lodge and rest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 54 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2681, with linked reader references where each row is available.