Camp
מַחֲנֶהStrong’s H4264machaneh (ma-cha-neh)
Appears in 189 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machaneh is the Hebrew word usually translated “camp”, “camp of” and “army”. It appears in 189 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Encampment, campcamp, place of encampment · camp of armed host, army camp · those who encamp, company, body of people
How it's translated
- the camp 62
- camp of 32
- of the camp 28
- in the camp 22
- the army 8
- in camp of 8
- the camps 6
- of camp of 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 44
- Judges 20
- 1 Samuel 20
- Leviticus 17
- Joshua 16
- Exodus 14
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 32:2And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
- Genesis 32:8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
- Genesis 32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
- Genesis 32:21So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
- Genesis 33:8And 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.
All 189 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲנֶה machaneh · camp
1) encampment, camp 1a) camp, place of encampment 1b) camp of armed host, army camp 1c) those who encamp, company, body of people
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “camp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAMP, noun
- The ground on which an army pitch their tents, whether for a night or a longer time.
- The order or arrangement of tents, or disposition of an army, for rest; as, to pitch a camp Also, the troops encamped on the same field.
- An army.
All definitions and other forms of “camp”
CAMP, verb transitive
or I. To rest or lodge, as an army, usually in tents; to pitch a camp; to fix tents; but seldom used. [See Encamp.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.