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Lexicon :: Strong's H4264 - maḥănê

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מַֽחֲנֶה
Transliteration
maḥănê
Pronunciation
makh-an-eh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 690c

Strong’s Definitions

מַחֲנֶה machăneh, makh-an-eh'; from H2583; an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts):—army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 216x

The KJV translates Strong's H4264 in the following manner: camp (136x), host (61x), company (6x), tents (5x), armies (4x), bands (2x), battle (1x), drove (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 216x
The KJV translates Strong's H4264 in the following manner: camp (136x), host (61x), company (6x), tents (5x), armies (4x), bands (2x), battle (1x), drove (1x).

  1. encampment, camp

    1. camp, place of encampment

    2. camp of armed host, army camp

    3. those who encamp, company, body of people

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַחֲנֶה machăneh, makh-an-eh'; from H2583; an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts):—army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
STRONGS H4264: Abbreviations
מַחֲנֶה 214 noun masculineGenesis 33:816 times and femininePsalm 27:3; 1 Chronicles 11:15 (on Genesis 32:9a [Genesis 32:8a] a see Di) encampment, camp — absolute מ׳ Genesis 32:9 [Genesis 32:8] (twice in verse) + 126 times (including Ezekiel 1:24, strike out Co); construct מַחֲנֵה Genesis 32:3 [Genesis 32:2 + 56 times; suffix מַחֲנֵהוּ Numbers 1:52 + 5 times; מַחֲנֶיךָ Deuteronomy 23:15; Deuteronomy 29:10, מַחֲנֶךָ Deuteronomy 23:15, מַחֲנֵיכֶם Amos 4:10, מַהֲנֵיהֶם Numbers 5:3; Judges 8:10 (compare below, and on form of noun with suffix see Ges§ 93. 3, R 3); plural absolute מִחֲנות Genesis 32:8 [Genesis 32:7 + 9 times; construct 1 Chronicles 9:18 + 2 times, מַחֲנִים Numbers 13:19; suffix (apparetnly plural noun) מַחֲנֵיהֶם Joshua 10:4 + 5 times; — on dual see מ׳ proper name below.
1. camp, place of encampment:
a. of caravan of travelers Genesis 32:22 [Genesis 32:21] (J), especially of Israel at Exodus and in wilderness Exodus 16:13 (twice in verse); Exodus 19:16, 17 (all P; distinguished from עַם); שַׁעַר מ׳ Exodus 32:26 (JE); especially מִחוּץ המ׳ in connection with uncleanness, etc., Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 4:12 (P) + often, of position of tent of meeting Exodus 33:7 (twice in verse) (JE), contr. Numbers 2:17 (P), where of encampments of several tribes, compare Numbers 1:52; Numbers 2:3; Numbers 10:2, 5, 6, 25 etc., (all P), already passing over to 3 (compare הַחֹנִים Numbers 10:5, 6); specifically of camp of Levites, surrounding tabernacle, so that P can say אֹהֶלמֿוֺעֵד מַחֲנֵה הַלְוִיִם Numbers 2:17; and so (late) of temple הַשֹּׁעֲרִים לְמַחֲנוֺת בְּנֵי לֵוִי 1 Chronicles 9:18, as well as שַׁעֲרֵי מַחֲנוֺת י׳ 2 Chronicles 31:2; plural (opposed to מִבְצָרִים = fortresses) Numbers 13:19.
2. camp of armed host Joshua 6:11 (twice in verse); Joshua 6:14 (JE), 1 Samuel 4:3, 5, 6 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 4:7; 1 Samuel 17:53; 2 Kings 7:16 etc.
3. a. those who encamp Numbers 10:5, 6; 1 Chronicles 11:15; Psalm 27:3 (all with verb חנה) compare (probably) Isaiah 37:36 = 2 Kings 19:35, etc.
b. company, body of people; people and beasts Genesis 32:8 [Genesis 32:7]; Genesis 32:9 [Genesis 32:8] (twice in verse); Genesis 32:11 [Genesis 32:10]; Genesis 33:8, funeral company of Jacob Genesis 50:9; of Israel on march Exodus 14:19, 20 compare Numbers 10:5, 6.
c. army, host Joshua 8:13; Joshua 10:5; Joshua 11:4; Judges 4:15, 16 (twice in verse); Judges 7:1, 8; Judges 8:10 (twice in verse); Judges 8:11 (twice in verse); Judges 8:12; 1 Samuel 17:1, 46; 2 Kings 3:9 even while in the thick of the fight; 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33 etc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:2; 32:7; 32:7; 32:8; 32:8; 32:8; 32:10; 32:21; 33:8; 33:8; 50:9

Exodus

14:19; 14:20; 16:13; 19:16; 19:17; 29:14; 32:26; 33:7

Leviticus

4:12

Numbers

1:52; 1:52; 2:3; 2:17; 2:17; 5:3; 10:2; 10:5; 10:5; 10:5; 10:5; 10:6; 10:6; 10:6; 10:6; 10:25; 13:19; 13:19

Deuteronomy

23:15; 23:15; 29:10

Joshua

6:11; 6:14; 8:13; 10:4; 10:5; 11:4

Judges

4:15; 4:16; 7:1; 7:8; 8:10; 8:10; 8:11; 8:12

1 Samuel

4:3; 4:5; 4:6; 4:7; 17:1; 17:46; 17:53

1 Kings

22:34

2 Kings

3:9; 7:16; 19:35

1 Chronicles

9:18; 9:18; 11:15; 11:15

2 Chronicles

18:33; 31:2

Psalms

27:3; 27:3

Isaiah

37:36

Ezekiel

1:24

Amos

4:10

H4264

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Strong's Number H4264 matches the Hebrew מַֽחֲנֶה (maḥănê),
which occurs 216 times in 190 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 32:2–Num 4:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When he saw them, Ya`akov said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Machanayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - Then Ya`akov was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - and he said, "If Esav comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:10 - I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Yarden; and now I have become two companies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Esav said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Ya`akov said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:9 - There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - The angel of God, who went before the camp of Yisra'el, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - It came between the camp of Mitzrayim and the camp of Yisra'el; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:24 - It happened in the morning watch, that the LORD looked out on the host of the Mitzrim through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Mitzrian army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:13 - It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:16 - It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud shofar; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:17 - Moshe led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:14 - But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - When Yehoshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moshe, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moshe's anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - then Moshe stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the LORD's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - He said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 - Now Moshe used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of meeting." It happened that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - The LORD spoke to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Yehoshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - Moshe gave mitzvah, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12 - even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:21 - He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:11 - He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:17 - But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:11 - The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Moshe called Misha'el and Eltzafan, the sons of `Uzzi'el the uncle of Aharon, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:5 - So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moshe had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:3 - and the Kohen shall go forth out of the camp. The Kohen shall examine him, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - "He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:27 - The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:28 - He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:3 - Whatever man there is of the house of Yisra'el, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:10 - The son of an Yisra'elite woman, whose father was a Mitzrian, went out among the children of Yisra'el; and the son of the Yisra'elite woman and a man of Yisra'el strove together in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:14 - "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23 - Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Yisra'el did as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - The children of Yisra'el shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Yehudah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Yehudah shall be Nachshon the son of `Amminadav.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All who were numbered of the camp of Yehudah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:10 - "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Re'uven according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Re'uven shall be Elitzur the son of Shede'ur.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:16 - "All who were numbered of the camp of Re'uven were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their hosts. They shall set out second.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - "Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:18 - "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Efrayim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Efrayim shall be Elishama the son of `Ammihud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - "All who were numbered of the camp of Efrayim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:25 - "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Achi`ezer the son of `Ammishaddai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those who were numbered of the children of Yisra'el by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:5 - When the camp moves forward, Aharon shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

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