Mahanaim
מַחֲנַיִםStrong’s H4266machanayim (ma-cha-na-yim)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machanayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “mahanaim”, “from mahanaim” and “mahanaim towards”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.”
Meaning
- § Mahanaim = "two camps"
How it's translated
- mahanaim 7
- from mahanaim 2
- mahanaim towards 2
- and from mahanaim 1
- in mahanaim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 6
- Joshua 3
- 1 Kings 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 13:26And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
- Joshua 13:30And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
- Joshua 21:38And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
- 2 Samuel 2:8But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
- 2 Samuel 2:12And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 2:29And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲנַיִם machanayim · Mahanaim
§ Mahanaim = "two camps" a place east of the Jordan, named from Jacob's encounter with angels
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.