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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

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 said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,[fn] and the flocks and herds and camels as well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group,[fn] the group[fn] that is left may escape.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:10 - I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?” “To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:9 - Chariots and horsemen[fn] also went up with him. It was a very large company.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:24 - During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:16 - On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:17 - Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:14 - But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 - Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.” Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12 - that is, all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a place ceremonially clean, where the ashes are thrown, and burn it there in a wood fire on the ash heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:21 - Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:11 - Then he is to take off these clothes and put on others, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:17 - But the bull with its hide and its flesh and its intestines he burned up outside the camp, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:5 - So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:3 - The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - “The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair and bathe with water; then they will be ceremonially clean. After this they may come into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:27 - The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:28 - The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:3 - Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox,[fn] a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:10 - Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:14 - “Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23 - Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - On the east, toward the sunrise, the divisions of the camp of Judah are to encamp 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 the men assigned to the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, number 186,400. They will set out first.

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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 the men assigned to the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, number 151,450. They will set out second.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - Then the tent of meeting and the camp of the Levites will set out in the middle of the camps. They will set out in the same order as they encamp, each in their own place under their standard.

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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 Ammihud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - All the men assigned to the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, number 108,100. They will set out third.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:25 - On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan under their standard. 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 the men assigned to the camp of Dan number 157,600. They will set out last, under their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:5 - When the camp is to move, Aaron and his sons are to go in and take down the shielding curtain and put it over the ark of the covenant law.

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