מַחֲנֶה

ma.cha.neh · camp

Hebrew · Strong's H4264 · Noun · Sounds like: makh-an-eh' · 215 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from חָנָה; 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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מַחֲנֶה 214 n.m. and f. encampment, camp
1. camp, place of encampment
2. camp of armed host
3.
a. those who encamp
b. company, body of people
c. army, host

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 29:1 מַחֲנֵיהֶ֖ם ma.cha.nei.Hem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Now the Philistines gathered together all their hosts to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.

  2. 1 Samuel 29:6 בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה ba.ma.cha.Neh · A person, place or thing

    Then Achish called David, and said unto him, As Jehovah liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favor thee not.

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