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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

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 3 / 4 (Jos 10:6–2Sa 5:24)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 -

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua to the camp H4264 at Gilgal, saying, “Do not [fn]abandon your slaves; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites that live in the hill country have assembled against us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:15 -

Then Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp H4264 to Gilgal.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:21 - that all the people returned to the camp H4264 to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. No one so much as [fn]lifted his tongue against any of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:43 - So Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp H4264 at Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - Then they came out, they and all their armies H4264 with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:9 - So the men went and passed through the land and wrote a description of it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp H4264 at Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And Yahweh threw Sisera and all his chariots and all his camp H4264 into confusion with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera came down from his chariot and fled away on foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - But Barak pursued the chariots and all those in the camp H4264 as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the camp H4264 of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 -

Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and camped beside [fn]the spring of Harod; and the camp H4264 of Midian was on the north side of [fn]them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So [fn]the 300 men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets into their hands. And [fn]Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the 300 men; and the camp H4264 of Midian was below him in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 -

Now it happened the same night that Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp H4264, for I have given it into your hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - “But if you are afraid to go down, then both you and Purah your young man, go down to the camp H4264,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - and you will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened, that you may go down against the camp H4264.” So he went with Purah his young man down to the [fn]outskirts of the armed men that were in the camp H4264.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Then Gideon came, and behold, a man was recounting a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I [fn]had a dream; [fn]a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp H4264 of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it [fn]upside down so that the tent lay flat.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his friend answered and said, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp H4264 into his hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 -

Now it happened that when Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. Then he returned to the camp H4264 of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has given the camp H4264 of Midian into your hands.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - Then he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, I will come to the outskirts of the camp H4264, and it will be that just as I do so you do likewise.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - “And I and all who are with me will blow the trumpet. Then you also shall blow the trumpets all around the camp H4264 and say, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 -

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp H4264 at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set up the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - And each stood in his place around the camp H4264. Then all of the camp H4264 ran, and they made a loud shout and fled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - So they blew 300 trumpets. And Yahweh set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole camp H4264. And the camp H4264 fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 -

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps H4264 with them, about 15,000 men, all who were left of the entire camp H4264 of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 men who drew the sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - And Gideon went up by the way of those who dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah and struck the camp H4264 when the camp H4264 was [fn]unsuspecting.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna fled. And he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw the whole camp H4264 into utter fright.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:25 - And the Spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in [fn]Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 -

So they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp H4264 from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with [fn]him; and they brought them to the camp H4264 at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:3 - Then the people came into the camp H4264, and the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh [fn]defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that [fn]it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:5 -

And it happened that as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp H4264, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth was thrown into confusion.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:6 - Then the Philistines heard the noise of the shout and said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp H4264 of the Hebrews mean?” Then they knew that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp H4264.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:7 - And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp H4264.” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - Then the next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp H4264 at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:17 - And the [fn]raiders came from the camp H4264 of the Philistines in three [fn]companies: one [fn]company turned [fn]toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:15 - And there was a trembling in the camp H4264, in the field, and among all the people. Even the garrison and the raiders trembled, and the earth quaked so that it became a [fn]great trembling.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:19 - And it happened that while Saul talked to the priest, the commotion in the camp H4264 of the Philistines continued and increased; so Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:21 - Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines previously, who went up with them all around in the camp H4264, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:1 -

Now the Philistines gathered their camps H4264 for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:4 - Then a champion came out from the camps H4264 of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was [fn]six cubits and a [fn]span.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17 -

Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp H4264 to your brothers.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:46 - “This day Yahweh will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the camp H4264 of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53 - Then the sons of Israel returned from hotly pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camps H4264.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 -

Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp H4264?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:1 -

Now it happened in those days that the Philistines gathered their armed camps H4264 for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the camp H4264, you and your men.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:5 - Saul saw the camp H4264 of the Philistines and was afraid and his heart trembled greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:19 - “Moreover Yahweh will also give over Israel along with you into the hands of the Philistines, therefore tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Indeed Yahweh will give over the camp H4264 of Israel into the hands of the Philistines!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:1 -

Then the Philistines gathered together all their camps H4264 to Aphek, while the Israelites were camping by the spring which is in Jezreel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:6 -

Then Achish called David and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the camp H4264 are pleasing in my sight; for I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the lords.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - Now it happened that on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp H4264 from Saul. And his clothes were torn and [fn]dust was on his head. And it happened when he came to David, that he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:3 - Then David said to him, “From where do you come?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp H4264 of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - “And it will be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the [fn]balsam trees, then you shall act promptly, for then Yahweh will have gone out before you to strike the camp H4264 of the Philistines.”

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