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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

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 1 / 4 (Gen 32:2–Num 4:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - "If Esau attacks one camp," he thought, "then the other camp will be able to escape."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:10 - I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Esau then asked, "What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?" Jacob replied, "To find favor in your sight, my lord."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:9 - Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:24 - In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:13 - In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:16 - On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:17 - Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:14 - But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up outside the camp. It is the purification offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "It is the sound of war in the camp!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me." All the Levites gathered around him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 - Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone seeking the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - Moses instructed them to take his message throughout the camp, saying, "Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12 - all the rest of the bull - he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:21 - He must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull - it is the sin offering of the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:11 - Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he must bring the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:17 - but the rest of the bull - its hide, its flesh, and its dung - he completely burned up outside the camp just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:11 - but the flesh and the hide he completely burned up outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Moses then called to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle, and said to them, "Come near, carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:5 - So they came near and carried them away in their tunics to a place outside the camp just as Moses had spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - The whole time he has the infection he will be continually unclean. He must live in isolation, and his place of residence must be outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:3 - The priest is to go outside the camp and examine the infection. If the infection of the diseased person has been healed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - "The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - and the one who sent the goat away to Azazel must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:27 - The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy place, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, their flesh, and their dung must be burned up,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:28 - and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:3 - "Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:10 - Now an Israelite woman's son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman's son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:14 - "Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23 - Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - "The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - "Now those who will be camping on the east, toward the sunrise, are the divisions of the camp of Judah under their standard. The leader of the people of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel at the front.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:10 - "On the south will be the divisions of the camp of Reuben under their standard. The leader of the people of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:16 - All those numbered of the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, are 151,450. They will travel second.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - "Then the tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites will travel in the middle of the camps. They will travel in the same order as they camped, each in his own place under his standard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:18 - "On the west will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Amihud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:25 - "On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan, under their standards. The leader of the people of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - All those numbered of the camp of Dan are 157,600. They will travel last, under their standards."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:5 - When it is time for the camp to journey, Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

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