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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.
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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 28 times in 21 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, H4264 with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, H4264 unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host H4264 of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host H4264 of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host H4264 of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 - And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; H4264 for I have delivered it into thine hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: H4264

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. H4264 Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. H4264

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host H4264 of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. H4264

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host H4264 of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host H4264 of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, H4264 it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, H4264 and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp H4264 in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: H4264 and all the host H4264 ran, and cried, and fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: H4264 and the host H4264 fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts H4264 with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts H4264 of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: H4264 for the host H4264 was secure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. H4264

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:25 - And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp H4264 of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 - And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp H4264 from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp H4264 to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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