παρεμβολή, 
παρεμβολῆς. 
ἡ (from 
παρεμβάλλω, which see); 
1. interpolation, insertion (into a discourse of matters foreign to the subject in hand, 
Aeschines). 
2. In the Maced. dialect (cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex., p. 30; 
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 377; (
Winers Grammar, 22)) 
an encampment (Pclyb., 
Diodorus, 
Josephus, 
Plutarch); 
a. the camp of the Israelites in the desert (an enclosure within which their tents were pitched), 
Exodus 29:14; 
Exodus 19:17; 
Exodus 32:17; hence, in 
Hebrews 13:11 used for 
the city of Jerusalem, inasmuch as that was to the Israelites what formerly the encampment had been in the desert; of 
the sacred congregation or assembly of Israel, as that had been gathered formerly in camps in the wilderness, 
Hebrews 13:13. 
b. the barracks of the Roman soldiers, which at Jerusalem were in the castle Antonia: 
Acts 21:34, 
37; 
Acts 22:24; 
Acts 23:10, 
16, 
32. 
3. an army in line of battle: 
Hebrews 11:34; 
Revelation 20:9 (here 
A. V. camp), (
Exodus 14:19, 
20; 
Judges 4:16; 
Judges 8:11; 
1 Samuel 14:16; very often in 
Polybius; 
Aelian v. h. 14, 46). Often in the 
Sept. for 
מַחֲנֶה, which signifies both 
camp and 
army; frequent in both senses in 1 Maccabees (); cf. Grimm on 1 Macc. 3:3. 
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