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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 2 / 4 (Num 4:15–Jos 10:5)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 -

“Aaron and his sons are to finish covering the holy objects and all their equipment whenever the camp is to move on. The Kohathites will come and carry them, but they are not to touch the holy objects or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the tent of meeting.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 -

“Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 -

“Send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 -

The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the LORD instructed Moses.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:2 -

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community and have the camps set out.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5 -

“When you sound short blasts, the camps pitched on the east are to set out.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 -

“When you sound short blasts a second time, the camps pitched on the south are to set out. Short blasts are to be sounded for them to set out.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14 -

The military divisions of the camp of Judah’s descendants with their banner set out first, and Nahshon son of Amminadab was over their divisions.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:18 -

The military divisions of the camp of Reuben with their banner set out, and Elizur son of Shedeur was over their divisions.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:22 -

Next the military divisions of the camp of Ephraim’s descendants with their banner set out, and Elishama son of Ammihud was over their divisions.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:25 -

The military divisions of the camp of Dan’s descendants with their banner set out, serving as rear guard for all the camps, and Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over their divisions.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:34 -

Meanwhile, the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 -

Now the people began complaining openly before[fn] the LORD about hardship. When the LORD heard, his anger burned, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 -

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:26 -

Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them ​— ​they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent ​— ​and they prophesied in the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 -

A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:30 -

Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 -

A wind sent by the LORD came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them all around the camp. They were flying three feet[fn] off[fn] the ground for about a day’s journey in every direction.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 -

The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail ​— ​the one who took the least gathered sixty bushels[fn] ​— ​and they spread them out all around the camp.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 -

The LORD answered Moses, “If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn’t she remain in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15 -

So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was brought back in.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 -

“Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the cities they live in encampments or fortifications?

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 -

But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the LORD’s covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 -

Then the LORD told Moses, “The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 -

So the entire community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:3 -

“Give it to the priest Eleazar, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 -

“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9 -

“A man who is clean is to gather up the cow’s ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes will be kept by the Israelite community for preparing the water to remove impurity; it is a sin offering.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 -

They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:13 -

Moses, the priest Eleazar, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 -

“You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:24 -

“On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14 -

“The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:15 -

“Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp until they had all perished.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 -

“When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 -

“If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11 -

“When evening approaches, he is to wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12 -

“You are to have a place outside the camp and go there to relieve yourself.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 -

“For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or he will turn away from you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 -

“your dependents, your wives, and the resident aliens in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water ​— ​

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:11 -

“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:2 -

After three days the officers went through the camp

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 -

After the entire nation had been circumcised, they stayed where they were in the camp until they recovered.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 -

So the ark of the LORD was carried around the city, circling it once. They returned to the camp and spent the night there.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:14 -

On the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 -

“But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you[fn] take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and make trouble for it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 -

So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 -

The troops were stationed in this way: the main[fn] camp to the north of the city and its rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 -

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Please make a treaty with us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 -

So the five Amorite kings ​— ​the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon ​— ​joined forces, advanced with all their armies, besieged Gibeon, and fought against it.


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