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Lexicon :: Strong's H4264 - maḥănê

Aa
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 2 / 4 (Num 4:15–Jos 10:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - The camp will be ready to move when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the sacred articles. The Kohathites will come and carry these things to the next destination. But they must not touch the sacred objects, or they will die. So these are the things from the Tabernacle that the Kohathites must carry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - “Command the people of Israel to remove from the camp anyone who has a skin disease[fn] or a discharge, or who has become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead person.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - This command applies to men and women alike. Remove them so they will not defile the camp in which I live among them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 - So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses and removed such people from the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:2 - “Make two trumpets of hammered silver for calling the community to assemble and for signaling the breaking of camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:5 - “When you sound the signal to move on, the tribes camped on the east side of the Tabernacle must break camp and move forward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:6 - When you sound the signal a second time, the tribes camped on the south will follow. You must sound short blasts as the signal for moving on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14 - Judah’s troops led the way. They marched behind their banner, and their leader was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:18 - Reuben’s troops went next, marching behind their banner. Their leader was Elizur son of Shedeur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:22 - Ephraim’s troops went next, marching behind their banner. Their leader was Elishama son of Ammihud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:25 - Dan’s troops went last, marching behind their banner and serving as the rear guard for all the tribal camps. Their leader was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:34 - As they moved on each day, the cloud of the LORD hovered over them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:1 - Soon the people began to complain about their hardship, and the LORD heard everything they said. Then the LORD’s anger blazed against them, and he sent a fire to rage among them, and he destroyed some of the people in the outskirts of the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 - The manna came down on the camp with the dew during the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:26 - Two men, Eldad and Medad, had stayed behind in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but they had not gone out to the Tabernacle. Yet the Spirit rested upon them as well, so they prophesied there in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 - A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:30 - Then Moses returned to the camp with the elders of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - Now the LORD sent a wind that brought quail from the sea and let them fall all around the camp. For miles in every direction there were quail flying about three feet above the ground.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - So the people went out and caught quail all that day and throughout the night and all the next day, too. No one gathered less than fifty bushels[fn]! They spread the quail all around the camp to dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - But the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had done nothing more than spit in her face, wouldn’t she be defiled for seven days? So keep her outside the camp for seven days, and after that she may be accepted back.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15 - So Miriam was kept outside the camp for seven days, and the people waited until she was brought back before they traveled again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - See what kind of land they live in. Is it good or bad? Do their towns have walls, or are they unprotected like open camps?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant left the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must be put to death! The whole community must stone him outside the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - So the whole community took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:3 - Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 - “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the camp, though he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9 - Then someone who is ceremonially clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a purified place outside the camp. They will be kept there for the community of Israel to use in the water for the purification ceremony. This ceremony is performed for the removal of sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:13 - Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - And all of you who have killed anyone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must purify yourselves and your captives on the third and seventh days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:24 - On the seventh day you must wash your clothes and be purified. Then you may return to the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14 - “Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the LORD had vowed would happen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:15 - The LORD struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 - “When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away from anything that is impure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 - “Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11 - Toward evening he must bathe himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12 - “You must have a designated area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - The camp must be holy, for the LORD your God moves around in your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies. He must not see any shameful thing among you, or he will turn away from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - Your little ones and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:11 - “Go through the camp and tell the people to get their provisions ready. In three days you will cross the Jordan River and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:2 - Three days later the Israelite officers went through the camp,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 - After all the males had been circumcised, they rested in the camp until they were healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:11 - So the Ark of the LORD was carried around the town once that day, and then everyone returned to spend the night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:14 - On the second day they again marched around the town once and returned to the camp. They followed this pattern for six days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - “Do not take any of the things set apart for destruction, or you yourselves will be completely destroyed, and you will bring trouble on the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - The men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all the other relatives who were with her. They moved her whole family to a safe place near the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they stationed the main army north of the town and the ambush west of the town. Joshua himself spent that night in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 - When they arrived at the camp of Israel at Gilgal, they told Joshua and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land to ask you to make a peace treaty with us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - So these five Amorite kings combined their armies for a united attack. They moved all their troops into place and attacked Gibeon.

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