1. tabernacle - Noun
2. tabernacle - Verb
A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
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.
Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
A tryptich for sacred imagery.
A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle. Cormac McCarthy
This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized ... in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle. Norman Lamm
I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do. Charles Osgood
Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle. Cormac McCarthy
The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent. Julius Wellhausen
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. Dave Brubeck