מַחֲנֶה
machăneh · makh-an-eh'
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2583 (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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to separate and protect › the seed, life continuing › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to separate and protect of the seed, life continuing that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַחֲנֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
215 occurrences · 215 OT · 0 NT · 80 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the camp30 · 19%
- of the camp26 · 17%
- the host16 · 10%
- in the camp16 · 10%
- into the camp12 · 8%
- to the camp8 · 5%
- out of the camp4 · 3%
- of the host4 · 3%
- unto the camp4 · 3%
- unto the host4 · 3%
- from the camp3 · 2%
- and all the host3 · 2%
- and the host3 · 2%
- their armies2 · 1%
- for the host2 · 1%
- bands2 · 1%
- to the host2 · 1%
- with him, unto the camp2 · 1%
- they and all their hosts2 · 1%
- then the camps2 · 1%
- of the camps2 · 1%
- into the host2 · 1%
- throughout the camp2 · 1%
- company2 · 1%
- host2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.