คำว่า ' tabernacle ' ( N )
มีความหมายในภาษาไทยว่า สถานที่ประกอบพิธีถวายเครื่องบูชา
คำศัพท์อื่นๆที่มีความหมายเหมือนกัน : ศาลเจ้า, ห้องพระ
คำที่คล้ายกัน : recess; shrine; reliquary; church
คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[n.] A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
[n.] A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
[n.] Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
[n.] Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
[n.] Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
[n.] The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
[n.] A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
[n.] Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
[n.] A tryptich for sacred imagery.
[n.] A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
[n.] A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
[v. i.] To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.