machane · camp

What it means

machane (מַחֲנֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “camp”.

A group of people, with their tents and animals, traveling or encamped together; also an army.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
2. The people encamped, a host of soldiers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Camp: the place where travelers or soldiers encamp, and the people themselves who encamp. BDB notes that from there it means an army, and figuratively a large group. It comes from חָנָה, “encamp”.

• Jacob's camp, and “the camp of Elohim” Genesis 32:2Genesis 32:7
• Israel's camp in the wilderness Exodus 14:20Deuteronomy 23:14
• Outside the camp: the unclean Leviticus 13:46
• The enemy camp Judges 7:13Exodus 32:17

Historical and cultural background

In Genesis 32:2 Jacob sees the messengers of Elohim, says “This is the camp of Elohim!” and calls the place Mahanaim, a name that means “double camp”. Leviticus 13:46 commands that the one with the sore live “outside the camp”.

How we translate it

“Camp” 188 times, “camps” 24. This edition keeps “camp” also where the word names the troops encamped (“the camp fled”, Judges 7:22), so that it can be seen to be the same word.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• camp ×188
• camps ×24
• company ×2
• Mahaneh-dan ×1
• army ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×19
• Leviticus×18
• Numbers×49
• Deuteronomy×10
• Joshua×17
• Judges×28
• 1 Samuel×22
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×15
• 1 Chronicles×8
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Psalms×3
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Joel×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 32:2

  Jacob said when he saw them, “This is the camp of Elohim!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

• Genesis 32:7

  Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, the cattle, and the camels, into two camps.

• Genesis 32:8

  For he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp that is left will escape.”

• Genesis 32:10

  I am too small for all the acts of loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant; for with my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

• Genesis 32:21

  So the gift passed on ahead of him, while he spent the night that night in the camp.

• Genesis 33:8

  He said, “What do you mean by all this camp that I met?” He said, “To find favor in the eyes of my lord.”

• Genesis 50:9

  There went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and the company was very large.

• Exodus 14:19

  Then the angel of Elohim, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,

• Exodus 14:20

  and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness, and it lit up the night; and the one did not come near the other all night.

• Exodus 14:24

  In the morning watch, YHWH looked down on the camp of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw into confusion the camp of the Egyptians.

• Exodus 16:13

  In the evening quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

• Exodus 19:16

  On the third day, when morning came, there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a horn, very loud; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

• Exodus 19:17

  Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet Elohim, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

• Exodus 29:14

  But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

• Exodus 32:17

  When Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.”

• Exodus 32:19

  And it happened, as soon as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

• Exodus 32:26

  And Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Whoever is for YHWH, come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.

• Exodus 32:27

  And he said to them, “Thus says YHWH, Elohim of Israel: ‘Each man, put his sword on his side; pass through and return from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each man, his brother, and each man his companion, and each man his relative.’”

• Exodus 33:7

  And Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought YHWH would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

• Exodus 33:11

  And YHWH would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his companion. Then he would return to the camp, but his assistant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from inside the tent.

• Exodus 36:6

  So Moses commanded, and they made a proclamation pass through the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do any more work for the contribution of the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.

• Leviticus 4:12

  all the bull, he shall bring out to outside the camp, to a clean place, to the ash heap, and burn it on wood with fire; on the ash heap it shall be burned.

• Leviticus 4:21

  He shall bring the bull to outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering of the assembly.

• Leviticus 6:11

  Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and bring out the ashes to outside the camp, to a clean place.

• Leviticus 8:17

  But the bull, its skin, its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 9:11

  The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

• Leviticus 10:4

  Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel, Aaron’s uncle, and said to them, “Come near, carry your brothers from before the Holy Place to outside the camp.”

• Leviticus 10:5

  They came near and carried them in their tunics to outside the camp, as Moses had said.

• Leviticus 13:46

  All the days that the sore is on him he shall be unclean; he is unclean; he shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

• Leviticus 14:3

  The priest shall go out to outside the camp, and the priest shall examine him, and if the leprous sore has been healed in the leper,

• Leviticus 14:8

  The one being purified shall wash his garments, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and he will be clean; and after that he may come into the camp, but he shall remain outside his tent seven days.

• Leviticus 16:26

  And the one who sends away the goat to Azazel shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and after that he may come into the camp.

• Leviticus 16:27

  And the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make expiation in the Holy Place, someone shall take out to outside the camp, and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung.

• Leviticus 16:28

  And the one who burns them shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and after that he may come into the camp.

• Leviticus 17:3

  Any man of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,

• Leviticus 24:10

  And the son of an Israelite woman, who was the son of an Egyptian man, went out among the sons of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel fought in the camp.

• Leviticus 24:14

  “Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard lay their hands on his head, and let all the community stone him.

• Leviticus 24:23

  And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought out the one who cursed to outside the camp and stoned him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 1:52

  The sons of Israel shall camp, each man in his camp and each man by his banner, by their armies.

• Numbers 2:3

  Those who camp on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be the banner of the camp of Judah by their armies; and the chief of the sons of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab,

And 176 more times.