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Tent-Makers
Open directlyHastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
TENT-MAKERS. Acts 18:3. Tent-making is said to have been Paul's trade, but the word so translated is supposed to refer to the manufacture of tent-cloth rather than to the preparing of tents. Some suppose that he made military tents, the material of which was goatskins.
Scripture references
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
TENT-MAKERS. Acts 18:3. Tent-making is said to have been Paul's trade, but the word so translated is supposed to refer to the manufacture of tent-cloth rather than to the preparing of tents. Some suppose that he made military tents, the material of which was goatskins.