Tent Maker
Tent-Maker
tentmak-er (, skenopoios): Mentioned only once (Act 18:3). Paul’s native province of Cilicia was noted for its goats’ hair cloth which was exported under the name of cilicium and was used largely for tentmaking. We are told in the passage mentioned that Paul dwelt with Aquila and Priscilla, and worked with them at tent-making (compare Act 20:34). See also CRAFTS, II, 18.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Tent-maker
As tents were made of skins, goats’ hair, etc., and small ones of linen, their manufacture embraced a variety of labour, and the precise nature of Paul and Aquila’s work as tentmakers cannot be ascertained. Act 18:3. Tarsus, Paul’s native city, was noted for the manufacture of tents. They were commonly made of cilicium , so named from Cilicia. It was a kind of strong cloth woven from the long hair of the goats of that province. All Jews learned a trade, to which they could turn if needful.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Tent Maker
St. Paul, according to the practice of the Jews, who, however opulent, always taught their children some trade, appears to have been a tent maker. This, however, is understood by some moderns to mean a maker of tent cloth, St. Paul being a Cilician, a country which produced a species of rough-haired goats, from which the Cilicians manufactured a thick and coarse cloth, much used for tents. The fathers, however, say that he made military tents, the material of which was skins.