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σκην-όω ,
A.pitch tents, encamp, ἐσκήνωσαν v.l. for -ησαν in X.An.2.4.14; σκηνοῖεν v.l. for σκηνῷεν (cj.) in ib.7.4.12.
2. = σκηνέω (q.v. sub fin.), live or dwell in a tent, ἐν τῷ ὁμοῦ σκηνοῦν prob. cj. in Id.Cyr.2.1.25: generally, settle, take up one's abode, “κατὰ τὰς κώμας σκηνοῦν” Id.An.4.5.23; -οῦν ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις ib.5.5.11; “ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει, οὗπερ αὐτὸς ἐσκήνου” Id.HG5.4.56, cf. LXX Jd.5.17, al., J.AJ3.12.6: metaph., “ὁ λόγος . . ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν” Ev.Jo.1.14:—hence in pf.Pass., live or be, πόρρω ἐσκήνωται (v.l. ἐσκήνηται）“ τοῦ θανάσιμος εἶναι” Pl.R. 610e.
II. trans., pitch a tent, “σκηνὰς . . σκηνώσας” Polyaen.7.21.6.
2. τὸν τόπον τὸν νῦν σκενοῖ (sic) the place which he now inhabits, dub. in PCair.Zen.499.89 (iii B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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