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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 3 / 4 (Jos 10:6–2Sa 5:24)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 -

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp H4264 at Gilgal, saying, “Do not [fn]abandon your servants; 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 [fn]at Gilgal.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:21 - that all the people returned to the camp H4264, to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. No one [fn]uttered a word against any of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:43 - So Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp H4264 [fn]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 at the camp H4264 at Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the LORD [fn]routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army H4264 with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - But Barak pursued the chariots and the army H4264 as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army H4264 of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 -

Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him got up 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 three hundred men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And [fn]Gideon dismissed all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp H4264 of Midian was below him in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 -

Now on the same night it came about that the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp H4264, for I have handed it over to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - “But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp H4264,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - so that you will hear what they say; and afterward [fn]you will have the courage to go down against the camp H4264.” So he went down with Purah his servant to the [fn]outposts of the army that was in the camp H4264.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating 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 collapsed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his friend replied, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has handed over to him Midian and all the camp H4264.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 -

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 the LORD has handed over to you the camp H4264 of Midian!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - Then he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp H4264, [fn]do as I do.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - “When I and all who are with me blow the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets around the entire camp H4264 and say, ‘For the LORD 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 night watch, when they had just posted 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; and all the [fn]army H4264 ran, crying out as they fled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:22 - And when they blew the three hundred trumpets, the LORD set the sword of one against another even throughout the entire [fn]army H4264; and the [fn]army 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 [fn]armies H4264 with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the entire [fn]army H4264 of the [fn]people of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 [fn]swordsmen.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents to the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he [fn]attacked the camp H4264 when the camp H4264 was unsuspecting.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and routed the entire [fn]army H4264.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:25 - And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him when he was in [fn]Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 -

And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not go up to the LORD 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 four hundred young virgins who had not known a man by [fn]sleeping with him; and they brought them to the camp H4264 at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:3 - When the people came into the camp H4264, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s take the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that He may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:5 -

And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD was coming into the camp H4264, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:6 - And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp H4264 of the Hebrews mean?” Then they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp H4264.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:7 - So 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 - 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 and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:17 - Then [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 - 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 returned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:1 -

Now the Philistines gathered their armies 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 forward from the army H4264 encampment H4264 of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath. His height was [fn]six cubits and a [fn]span.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17 -

Then Jesse said to his son David, “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 the LORD will hand you over to me, and I will strike you and remove your head from you. Then I will give the dead bodies of the army H4264 of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, so 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 their close pursuit of the Philistines, and plundered their camps H4264.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:5 - When Saul saw the camp H4264 of the Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:19 - “Furthermore, the LORD will also hand Israel along with you over to the Philistines; so tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Indeed, the LORD will hand the army H4264 of Israel over to the Philistines!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:1 -

Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies 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 the LORD lives, you have indeed been honest, and your [fn]going out and your coming in with me in the army H4264 are pleasing in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the governors.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - And on the third day, behold, a man came from [fn]Saul’s camp H4264 with his clothes torn and [fn]dust on his head. And it happened when he came to David, 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 shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the baka-shrubs, then you shall [fn]act promptly, for then the LORD will have gone out before you to strike the army H4264 of the Philistines.”

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