H4264 מַחֲנֶה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 216 KJV occurrences
מַחֲנֶה
machăneh · makh-an-eh'
Definition
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)
KJV Renderings
army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
Derivation / Etymology
from H2583 (חָנָה);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 216)
- Genesis 32:2And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Leviticus 4:12Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
- Numbers 2:25¶ The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- Numbers 12:14¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
- Joshua 6:11So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
- Judges 7:18When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
- 1 Samuel 17:46This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
- 2 Kings 7:12¶ And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.