- σκηνοπηγία
- σκηνοπηγία, ας, ἡ (σκηνή, πήγνυμι Aristot., HA 9, 7 of the nest-building of swallows. Elsewh. only as a t.t. of Jewish religious lang.—σκανοπαγέομαι is found as a rel.-technical term in an ins [GDI 3632, 11–16] fr. the island of Cos [II B.C..—Dssm., LO 92f=LAE 92f]. On σκηνὴν πηγνύναι s. πήγνυμι 2) prim. ‘the setting up of tents’ or ‘construction of huts’. As name for the Festival of Booths/Tabernacles (σκ. in this sense, mostly w. ἑορτή: Dt 16:16; 31:10; Zech 14:16, 18, 19; 1 Esdr 5:50; 2 Macc 1:9 [τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς σκ.]; Jos., Ant. 4, 209; 8, 100; 123; 11, 154; 13, 241; 372; 15, 50, Bell. 2, 515. Jewish ins fr. Berenice in the Cyrenaica CIG III 5361 [13 B.C.]=Schürer III 94, n. 20, ln. 4), a festival celebrated Tishri (roughly=October) 15–21, out of doors when poss., in booths made fr. tree branches (חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת). Joseph. declares (Ant. 15, 50; cp. 8, 123) that it is the most important Jewish festival. J 5:1 v.l.; 7:2 (CSmith, NTS 9, ’63, 130–46).—Billerb. II 774–812; HBornhäuser, Sukka ’35, esp. pp. 34–39.—Demetrius of Scepsis in Athen. 4, 141ef tells of the τῶν Καρνείων of the Spartans σκηναῖς ἔχοντες παραπλήσιόν τι. They put up for nine days ‘something like a tent’. At times nine men eat together in them.—GMacRae, The Mng. and Evolution of the Feast of Tabernacles, CBQ 22, ’60, 251–76.—M-M. TW.
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