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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 forced their way into 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. Yet he would not drink it, but poured it out as an offering to the LORD;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:16 - And the people who were camped heard [fn]it being said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck and killed 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 one 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 battle H4264, for I am severely wounded.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:36 - Then the word passed throughout the army H4264 close to sunset, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his [fn]country!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:24 - But when they came to the camp H4264 of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled from them; and the Israelites invaded [fn]the land, [fn]killing the Moabites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:24 -

Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad the king of Aram gathered all his army 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; but if we sit here, we will also die. Now then come, and let’s go over to the camp H4264 of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, then we will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:5 - So they got up at twilight to go to the camp H4264 of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp H4264 of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - For the Lord had made the army H4264 of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians against us, to [fn]attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7 - So they got up and fled at twilight, and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeysindeed the camp H4264 itself, just as it was; and they fled for their lives.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:8 - When these men with leprosy came to the outskirts of the camp H4264, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and carried from there silver, gold, and clothes, and they went and hid them; then they returned and entered another tent, and carried valuables 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 told them, saying, “We came to the camp H4264 of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor a human voice; only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king got up 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; so they have left 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 - Therefore they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the army 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]measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two [fn]measures of barley for a shekel, in accordance with the word of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 -

Then it happened that night that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp H4264 of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of [fn]the 185,000 were [fn]dead.

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 in charge of the work of the service, doorkeepers of the tent; and their fathers had been in charge of the camp H4264 of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 -

Now three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam, while the army 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 took it and brought it to David; however, David would not drink it, but poured it out to the LORD;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:22 - For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army H4264 like the army H4264 of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:15 - “When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the baka-shrubs, then you shall go out to battle, for God will have gone out before you to strike the army H4264 of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:16 - David did just as God had commanded him, and they defeated the army H4264 of the Philistines from [fn]Gibeon even as far as Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - 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 the LORD and before His army H4264. And they carried away a very large amount of plunder.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - Now one 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 battle 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 began to reign.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:2 -

And Hezekiah appointed 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 serve and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the camp H4264 of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed every warrior, commander, and officer in the camp H4264 of the king of Assyria. So he returned [fn]in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:3 -

If an army H4264 encamps against me,

My heart will not fear;

If war arises against me,

In spite of this I am confident.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:28 -

He let them fall in the midst of [fn]their camp H4264,

All around their dwellings.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:16 -

When they became envious of Moses in the camp H4264,

And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:13 -

The Chorus

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

Come back, come back, so that we may look at you!”

The Groom

“Why should you look at the Shulammite,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 -

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp H4264 of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of [fn]the 185,000 were [fn]dead.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - And I also heard the sound of their wings, like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of [fn]the Almighty, a sound of a crowd like the sound of an army H4264 camp H4264; whenever they stopped, they let down their wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:2 - “Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, pile up an assault ramp, set up camps H4264, and place battering rams against it all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 -

The LORD utters His voice before His army;

His camp H4264 is indeed very great,

For mighty is one who carries out His word.

The day of the LORD is indeed great and very awesome,

And who can endure it?

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 -

“I sent a plague among you [fn]as in Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses,

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

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

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

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