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Word Study · Strong's H4264 · Hebrew

מַחֲנֶה

machaneh

makh-an-eh'

Strong's 1890 spelling: machăneh

an encampment (of travellers or troops)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.

  • 215
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 20 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 80
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 215 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 80

  • מַחֲנֵ֣ה18
  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה13
  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה12
  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖ה11
  • מַחֲנֵ֥ה10
  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃9
  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה9
  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה8
  • בְּמַחֲנֵ֣ה7
  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃7
  • בַּֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃5
  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶה֙5

and 68 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 39

  • the camp60
  • [the] camp of30
  • of the camp28
  • in the camp19
  • in [the] camp of8
  • the army8
  • the camps6
  • armies their5
  • of [the] camp of5
  • camp his4
  • [the] army of3
  • and [the] camp of3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 21

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular69
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular54
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)34
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)17
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural7
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3
  • noun · feminine plural3
  • noun · feminine singular3
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 69
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 54
  • HNcfsc · 34
  • HR/Ncfsc · 17
  • HNcmsc/Sp3mp · 7
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 6
  • HTd/Ncfpa · 6
  • HC/Ncfsc · 3
  • HNcfpa · 3
  • HNcfsa · 3
  • HNcfsc/Sp2ms · 2
  • HR/Ncfpc · 2

All 215, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis8 occurrences
Exodus19 occurrences
Leviticus18 occurrences
Numbers49 occurrences
Deuteronomy10 occurrences
Joshua17 occurrences
Judges27 occurrences
1 Samuel22 occurrences
2 Samuel4 occurrences
1 Kings3 occurrences
2 Kings15 occurrences
1 Chronicles8 occurrences
2 Chronicles5 occurrences
Psalms3 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel2 occurrences
Joel1 occurrence
Amos1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).