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H4264

H4264 — מַחֲנֶה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmachanehnoun mascOccurrences: 216

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H4264
Word:מַחֲנֶה
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H2583
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:216
Transliteration:machaneh
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:makh-an-eh'
Meaning:1. an encampment (of travellers or troops) 2. (hence) an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars 3. or even the sacred courts)
KJV Renderings:army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.

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מַחֲנֶה214 noun masculine Gen 33:8 + 16 t. and feminine Ps 27:3; 1Chr 11:15 (on Gen 32:9 a see Di) encampment, camp — absolute ׳ מ Gen 32:9 (twice in verse) + 126 t. (including Ezek 1:24, strike out Co); construct מַחֲנֵה Gen 32:3 + 56 t.; suffix מַחֲנֵהוּ Num 1:52 + 5 t.; מַחֲנֶיךָ Deut 23:15; Deut 29:10, מַחֲנֶךָ Deut 23:15, מַחֲנֵיכֶם Amos 4:10, מַהֲנֵיהֶם Num 5:3; Judg 8:10 (compare below, and on form of noun with suffix see Ges«GKC:93»§ 93. 3, R 3); plural absolute מִחֲנות Gen 32:8 + 9 t.; construct 1Chr 9:18 + 2 t., מַחֲנִים Num 13:19 suffix (apparetnly plural noun) מַחֲנֵיהֶם Josh 10:4 + 5 t.; — on dual see ׳ מ proper name below

1. camp, place of encampment:
a. of caravan of travelers Gen 32:22 ( J ), especially of Israel at Exodus and in wilderness Exod 16:13 (twice in verse); Exod 19:16; Exod 19:17 (all P ; distinguished from עַם); ׳ שַׁעַר מ Exod 32:26 ( J E ); especially ׳ מִחוּץ המ in connection with uncleanness, etc., Exod 29:14; Lev 4:12 ( P ) + often, of position of tent of meeting Exod 33:7 (twice in verse) ( J E ), contr. Num 2:17 ( P ), where of encampments of several tribes, compare Num 1:52; Num 2:3; Num 10:2; Num 10:5; Num 10:6; Num 10:25 etc., (all P ), already passing over to 3 (compare הַחֹנִים Num 10:5; Num 10:6); specifically of camp of Levites, surrounding tabernacle, so that P can say אֹהֶלמֿוֺעֵד מַחֲנֵה הַלְוִיִם Num 2:17 and so (late) of temple הַשֹּׁעֲרִים לְמַחֲנוֺת בְּנֵי לֵוִי 1Chr 9:18, as well as ׳ שַׁעֲרֵי מַחֲנוֺת י 2Chr 31:2 plural (opposed to מִבְצָרִים = fortresses) Num 13:19.
2. camp of armed host Josh 6:11 (twice in verse); Josh 6:14 ( J E ), 1Sam 4:3 ; 1Sam 4:5; 1Sam 4:6 (twice in verse); 1Sam 4:7; 1Sam 17:53; 2Kgs 7:16 etc.
3.
a. those who encamp Num 10:5; Num 10:6; 1Chr 11:15 ; Ps 27:3 (all with verb חנה) compare (probably) Isa 37:36 = 2Kgs 19:35, etc.
b. company, body of people; people and beasts Gen 32:8; Gen 32:9 (twice in verse); Gen 32:11 ; Gen 33:8, funeral company of Jacob Gen 50:9 of Israel on march Exod 14:19; Exod 14:20 compare Num 10:5; Num 10:6.
c. army, host Josh 8:13 ; Josh 10:5; Josh 11:4; Judg 4:15; Judg 4:16 (twice in verse); Judg 7:1; Judg 7:8; Judg 8:10 (twice in verse); Judg 8:11 (twice in verse); Judg 8:12; 1Sam 17:1; 1Sam 17:46 ; 2Kgs 3:9 even while in the thick of the fight; 1Kgs 22:34 = 2Chr 18:33 etc.


Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מחנה (mah-gh)

Genesis 82:2

EHCC: (3).This (is) God's host: and he called the

Genesis 33:8

KJV: And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.What…: Heb. What is all this band to thee?
EHCC: What (eeanest) thou by all this drove

Genesis 50:9

KJV: And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
EHCC: it was a very great company.

Exodus 14:19

KJV: And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
EHCC: which went before the comp of src,

Exodus 16:13

KJV: And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
EHCC: covered the camp: and in the morning the

Exodus 19:16

KJV: And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
EHCC: people that (was) in the camp trembled.

Exodus 29:14

KJV: But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
EHCC: burn with fire without the camp:

Exodus 82:17

EHCC: a noise of war tx the camp.

Exodus 36:6

KJV: And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
EHCC: [pears throughout the camp, _

Exodus 6:11

KJV: Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
EHCC: (4) the ashes without the camp

Exodus 8:17

KJV: And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
EHCC: ae 1 . burnt with fire heroes camp;

Exodus 10:4

KJV: Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
EHCC: pe suc panctnatyeute the camp.

Exodus 13:46

EHCC: without the camp (shalt) ishabitation (be).

Exodus 16:27

KJV: And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
EHCC: carry forth without the camp;

Exodus 17:3

KJV: And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
EHCC: lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth

Exodus 24:10

KJV: And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
EHCC: strove together in the camp;

Numbers 1:52

KJV: And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
EHCC: every man by Ais own camp,

Numbers 2:3

KJV: And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
EHCC: the standard of the camp of Judah

Numbers 4:5

KJV: And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
EHCC: when the קתוס setteth forward,

Numbers 5:2

KJV: Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
EHCC: put out of the camp every leper,

Numbers 10:2

KJV: Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
EHCC: for the journeying of the cumps.

Numbers 11:1

KJV: And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.complained: or, were as it were complainersit displeased: Heb. it was evil in the ears of
EHCC: the uttermost parts of the camp,

Numbers 12:14

KJV: And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
EHCC: let her be shut out from the camp

Numbers 19:19

KJV: And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
EHCC: whether in tents, GH strong holds ;

Numbers 14:44

KJV: But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
EHCC: departed not out of the camp.

Numbers 15:5

KJV: And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
EHCC: stone him with stones without the camp.

Numbers 19:3

KJV: And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
EHCC: bring her forth without fhe camp,

Numbers 31:12

KJV: And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
EHCC: unto the camp at the plains of Mi

Deuteronomy 2:14

KJV: And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.brook: or, valley
EHCC: wasted out from smong i ha,

Deuteronomy 99:11

EHCC: (10) ts Teger that (is) in thy

Deuteronomy 3:2

KJV: And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
EHCC: that the ום went through the hoc;

Deuteronomy 5:8

KJV: Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
EHCC: they abode in their places in the comp,

Deuteronomy 6:11

KJV: And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
EHCC: they came into the camp, and lodget ה

Deuteronomy 8:13

KJV: And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
EHCC: all the Aost that (was) on the north

Deuteronomy 9:6

KJV: Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
EHCC: went to Joshua unto the camp

Deuteronomy 10:5

KJV: And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.
EHCC: they and all their hoets,

Deuteronomy 51:11

EHCC: the people returned to the camp

Deuteronomy 11:4

KJV: And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;
EHCC: all their Aosts with them,

Deuteronomy 18:9

KJV: When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
EHCC: came (again) to Joshua to the hast

Judges 4:15

KJV: And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
EHCC: -all (his) chariots, and all (bis) ha,

Judges 7:1

KJV: Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
EHCC: 80 that the host of the Midianites

Judges 18:25

KJV: And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.angry: Heb. bitter of soul
EHCC: him at times ix the camp of Des יאו

1 Samuel 4:8

KJV: Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
EHCC: the people ‘were come into the ovmp,

1 Samuel 3:17

KJV: And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.more also: Heb. so addthing: or, word
EHCC: spoilers came out of the

1 Samuel 46:1

EHCC: will give the carcases of the hot of

1 Samuel 26:6

KJV: Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
EHCC: 0 down with me to Sul i

1 Samuel 28:1

KJV: And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
EHCC: the Philistines gathered their הום .

1 Samuel 5:2

KJV: When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
EHCC: to sche the host of the Philisiog. a

1 Samuel 29:16

EHCC: brake through the Aost of the Pb

1 Kings 16:16

KJV: And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
EHCC: king over Israel that day in the camp.

2 Kings 3:9

KJV: So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.that…: Heb. at their feet
EHCC: there was no water for the host,

2 Kings 5:15

KJV: And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
EHCC: he and all Ais company,

2 Kings 6:24

KJV: And it came to pass after this, that Ben–hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
EHCC: Syria gethered Ais host,

2 Kings 7:4

KJV: If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
EHCC: us oe a ne le Syria

2 Kings 19:35

KJV: And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
EHCC: smote in the camp of the Assyrians

1 Chronicles 9:18

KJV: Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
EHCC: they (were) porters in the Sr

1 Chronicles 11:15

KJV: Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.three…: or, three captains over the thirty
EHCC: and the host of the Philistines

1 Chronicles 12:22

KJV: For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.
EHCC: (it was) a great host, like the host of God.

1 Chronicles 14:15

KJV: And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
EHCC: to smite the Aost of the Philistines.

2 Chronicles 14:13

KJV: And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the Lord, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.destroyed: Heb. broken
EHCC: (12). before the Lord, and before Ais host;

2 Chronicles 18:33

KJV: And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.at a venture: Heb. in his simplicitybetween…: Heb. between the joints and between the breastplatewounded: Heb. made sick
EHCC: carry me out of the host ;

2 Chronicles 22:1

KJV: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
EHCC: that came with the Arabians to the camp

Psalms 27:3

KJV: Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
EHCC: Though an host should encamp

Psalms 78:28

KJV: And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
EHCC: fall in the midst of their ca:

Psalms 106:16

KJV: They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.
EHCC: They envied Moses also in the camp,

Song of Songs 6:13

KJV: Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.of…: or, of Mahanaim
EHCC: (7:1).the company of to armies. (marg.

Isaiah 37:36

KJV: Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
EHCC: smote in the camp 0 Assyrians

Ezekiel 5:24

EHCC: as the noise of אם toe

Ezekiel 4:2

KJV: And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.battering…: chief leaders
EHCC: set the camp also against it,

Joel 2:11

KJV: And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
EHCC: for פוא camp (is) very great:

Amos 4:10

KJV: I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.after…: or, in the wayand have…: Heb. with the captivity of your horses
EHCC: the stink of your camps to come

Zechariah 14:15

KJV: And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
EHCC: that shall be in these texts,
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