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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 216 times in 190 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Num 4:15–Jos 10:5)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp H4264 is to set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them, so that they will not touch the holy objects and die. These are the [fn]things in the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp H4264 every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is [fn]unclean because of a dead person.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - “You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp H4264 so that they will not defile their camp H4264 where I dwell in their midst.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 - And the sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp H4264; just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:2 - “Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps H4264 set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5 - “But when you blow an alarm, the camps H4264 that are pitched on the east side shall set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - “Then you will blow an alarm the second time, and the camps H4264 that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14 - And the standard of the camp H4264 of the sons of Judah, according to their armies, set out first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its army,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:18 - Next the standard of the camp H4264 of Reuben, according to their armies, set out with Elizur the son of Shedeur, over its army,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:22 - Next the standard of the camp H4264 of the sons of Ephraim, according to their armies, set out, with Elishama the son of Ammihud over its army,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:25 -

Then the standard of the camp H4264 of the sons of Dan, according to their armies, which formed the rear guard for all the camps H4264, set out, with Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai over its army,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:34 - Now the cloud of Yahweh was over them by day when they set out from the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 -

Now the people became like those who complain of calamity in the ears of Yahweh. And Yahweh heard it and His anger was kindled, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 - And when the dew fell on the camp H4264 at night, the manna would fall [fn]with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:26 -

But two men had remained in the camp H4264; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the [fn]other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 - So a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp H4264.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:30 - Then Moses [fn]returned to the camp H4264, both he and the elders of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 -

Now there went forth a wind from Yahweh, and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp H4264, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp H4264 and [fn]about two [fn]cubits over the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And the people [fn]spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered [fn]ten homers), and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - But Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her dishonor for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp H4264, and afterward she may be received again.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15 - So Miriam was shut up outside the camp H4264 for seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was received again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - “And how is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they [fn]like open camps H4264 or with fortifications?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - But they went up heedlessly to the [fn]ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of Yahweh nor Moses moved from the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 - Then Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp H4264.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - So all the congregation brought him outside the camp H4264 and stoned him [fn]to death with stones, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:3 - ‘And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp H4264 and be slaughtered in his presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 - ‘The priest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his [fn]body in water and afterward come into the camp H4264, but the priest shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9 - ‘Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp H4264 in a clean place, and [fn]the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as water to remove impurity; it is [fn]purification from sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - And they brought the captives and the loot and the spoil to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp H4264 at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:13 -

And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - “And you, camp outside the camp H4264 seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:24 - “And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp H4264.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14 - “Now the [fn]time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the [fn]brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp H4264, as Yahweh had sworn to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:15 - “Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to bring them into confusion from within the camp H4264 until they all came to an end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 -

“When you go out as [fn]an army H4264 against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 -

“If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp H4264; he may not [fn]reenter the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11 - “But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may [fn]reenter the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12 -

“You shall also have a place outside the camp H4264 and go out there,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - “Since Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp H4264 to deliver you and to give your enemies over to you, therefore your camp H4264 must be holy; and He must not see [fn]anything indecent among you, [fn]or He will turn away from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is within your camps H4264, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:11 - “Pass through the midst of the camp H4264 and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you are to cross this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, to possess it.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:2 - Now it happened that at the end of three days the officers went through the midst of the camp H4264;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 -

Now it happened that when they had completed circumcising all the nation, they remained in their places in the camp H4264 until they were [fn]healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 - So he had the ark of Yahweh [fn]taken around the city, circling it once; then they came into the camp H4264 and spent the night in the camp H4264.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:14 - Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp H4264; they did so for six days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - “But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest as you are devoting them to destruction, you also take some of the things devoted to destruction and make the camp H4264 of Israel devoted to destruction and bring trouble on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp H4264 of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they set the people, all the army H4264 that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 - And they went to Joshua to the camp H4264 at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country; so now, cut a covenant with us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all their armies H4264, and camped by Gibeon and fought against it.

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