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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

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 4 / 4 (2Sa 23:16–Zec 14:15)

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16 - So the three mighty men broke through the camp H4264 of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and carried it and brought it to David. Nevertheless, he was not willing to drink it, but poured it out to Yahweh;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:16 - And the people who were camped heard [fn]it said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck down the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp H4264.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 -

Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel [fn]in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn [fn]around and take me out of the [fn]fight H4264, for I am severely wounded.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:36 - Then a shout of lament passed throughout the camp H4264 close to sunset, saying, “Every man to his city and every man to his land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 -

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom; and they went around on a seven days’ journey, and there was no water for the camp H4264 or for the cattle that [fn]followed them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:24 - So they came to the camp H4264 of Israel. And the Israelites arose and struck the Moabites. So they fled before them; and they went forward [fn]into the land, striking down the Moabites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 -

Then he returned to the man of God [fn]with all his camp H4264, and came and stood before him, and said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so now please take a blessing from your servant.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:24 -

Now it happened afterwards, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his military camp H4264 and went up and besieged Samaria.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, and let us [fn]go over to the camp H4264 of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they put us to death, we will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:5 - So they arose at twilight to go to the camp H4264 of the Arameans. Then they came to the outskirts of the camp H4264 of the Arameans, but behold, there was no one there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - Now the Lord had caused the camp H4264 of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great military force, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7 - Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and forsook their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp H4264 just as it was, and fled for their life.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:8 - So these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp H4264 and entered one tent and ate and drank. Then they carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and they went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also and went and hid them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp H4264 of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor the voice of man, only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp H4264 to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:14 - They took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the camp H4264 of the Arameans, saying, “Go and see.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:16 -

So the people went out and plundered the camp H4264 of the Arameans. Then a [fn]seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two [fn]seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 -

Now it happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went out and struck 185,000 in the camp H4264 of the Assyrians. And the [fn]men arose early in the morning, and behold, all of [fn]them were dead bodies.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 -

being stationed until now at the king’s gate to the east).

These were the gatekeepers for the camp H4264 of the sons of Levi.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:19 -

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of [fn]Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp H4264 of Yahweh, keepers of the entrance.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 -

Then three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the camp H4264 of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - So the three broke through the camp H4264 of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and carried it and brought it to David. Nevertheless, David was not willing to drink it, but poured it out to Yahweh;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:22 - For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great camp H4264 like the camp H4264 of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:15 - “And it will be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the [fn]balsam trees, then you shall go out to battle, for God will have gone out before you to strike the camp H4264 of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:16 - Then David did just as God had commanded him, and they struck down the camp H4264 of the Philistines from [fn]Gibeon even as far as Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar; and so many Ethiopians fell that [fn]they could not recover, for they were shattered before Yahweh and before His [fn]army H4264. And they carried away very much spoil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel [fn]in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn [fn]around and take me out of the [fn]fight H4264, for I am severely wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:1 -

Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made [fn]Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabs to the camp H4264 had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah became king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:2 -

And Hezekiah set up the divisions of the priests and the Levites by their divisions, each according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the camp H4264 of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And Yahweh sent an angel who wiped out every mighty man of valor, ruler, and commander in the camp H4264 of the king of Assyria. So he returned [fn]in shame to his own land. And he entered the house of his god, and some of [fn]his own children caused him to fall there by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:3 -

Though a host H4264 encamp against me,

My heart will not fear;

Though war arise against me,

In this I trust.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:28 -

He caused them to fall in the midst of His camp H4264,

All around His dwelling places.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:16 -

Then they became envious of Moses in the camp H4264,

And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh,

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:13 -

[fn],[fn]Come back, come back, O Shulammite;

Come back, come back, that we may behold you!”

[fn]Why should you behold the Shulammite,

As at the dance of [fn]the two companies H4264?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 -

Then the angel of Yahweh went out and struck 185,000 in the camp H4264 of the Assyrians. And [fn]the men arose early in the morning, and behold, all of them were dead bodies.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters as they went, like the [fn]sound of [fn]the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army H4264 camp H4264; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:2 - “Then set a siege against it, build a siege wall against it, [fn]raise up a ramp against it, set up camps H4264 against it, and place battering rams against it all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 -

But Yahweh gives forth His voice before His military force;

Surely His camp H4264 is very numerous,

For mighty is he who does His word.

The day of Yahweh is indeed great and very awesome,

And who can endure it?

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 -

“I sent a pestilence among you after the manner of Egypt;

I killed your choice men by the sword along with your captured horses,

And I made the stench of your camp H4264 rise up even in your nostrils;

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:15 - And in the same way, the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps H4264 will be like this plague.

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