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Lexicon :: Strong's H4266 - maḥănayim

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מַֽחֲנַיִם
Transliteration
maḥănayim
Pronunciation
makh-an-ah'-yim
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

מַחֲנַיִם Machănayim, makh-an-ah'-yim; dual of H4264; double camp; Machanajim, a place in Palestine:—Mahanaim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's H4266 in the following manner: Mahanaim (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's H4266 in the following manner: Mahanaim (13x).

  1. Mahanaim = "two camps"

    1. a place east of the Jordan, named from Jacob's encounter with angels

    2. a Levitical city in Gad

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַחֲנַיִם Machănayim, makh-an-ah'-yim; dual of H4264; double camp; Machanajim, a place in Palestine:—Mahanaim.
STRONGS H4266: Abbreviations
† מַחֲנַיִם proper name, of a location (two camps) — east of Jordan; name from Jacob's meeting angels according to Genesis 32:3 [Genesis 32:2 (J), place on border of Gad Joshua 13:26, of Manasseh Joshua 13:30 (P); Levitical city in Gad Joshua 21:36 (P) = 1 Chronicles 6:65; named also 2 Samuel 2:8 (מַחֲנָ֑יִם), 2 Samuel 2:12; 2 Samuel 2:29 (נָ֑יִם-), 2 Samuel 19:33; 1 Kings 2:8 (נָ֑ים-); מַחֲנָ֑יְמָה 2 Samuel 17:24, 27; 1 Kings 4:14; site unknown, see DiGn; כִּמְחֹלַת הַמַּחֲנָ֑יִם Songs 7:1 is put here by Ew Hi Öttli and others: as at a (the) dance of Mahanaim; dance of a double choir Gi Stickel RV.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:2

Joshua

13:26; 13:30; 21:36

2 Samuel

2:8; 2:12; 2:29; 17:24; 17:27; 19:33

1 Kings

2:8; 4:14

1 Chronicles

6:65

Song of Songs

7:1

H4266

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4266 matches the Hebrew מַֽחֲנַיִם (maḥănayim),
which occurs 13 times in 13 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:26 - and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38 - and from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Mahanaim with its common-land,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:8 - But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took Ishbosheth[fn] the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:12 - Now Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:29 - Then Abner and his men went on all that night through the plain, crossed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron; and they came to Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:24 - Then David went to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:27 - Now it happened, when David had come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the people of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “And see, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:14 - Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:80

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:80 - And from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its common-lands, Mahanaim with its common-lands,
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