Strong's #2583: chanah (pronounced khaw-naw')
a primitive root (compare 2603); properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege):--abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chânâh
1) to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to decline
1a2) to encamp
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H2603]
Same Word by TWOT Number: 690
Usage:
This word is used 143 times:
Judges 11:20: "through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz,"
Judges 15:9: "Then the Philistines went up, and pitched and spread themselves in Lehi."
Judges 18:12: "And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, wherefore they called that"
Judges 19:9: "tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry;"
Judges 20:19: "of Israel rose up and encamped against Gibeah."
1 Samuel 4:1: "against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched"
1 Samuel 4:1: "beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek."
1 Samuel 11:1: "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all"
1 Samuel 13:5: "shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven."
1 Samuel 13:16: "in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash."
1 Samuel 17:1: "at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim."
1 Samuel 17:2: "and the men of Israel and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array"
1 Samuel 26:3: "And Saul pitched in the hill which is before Jeshimon,"
1 Samuel 26:5: "the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld"
1 Samuel 26:5: "of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about"
1 Samuel 28:4: "And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together,"
1 Samuel 28:4: "in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa."
1 Samuel 29:1: "their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel."
2 Samuel 11:11: "Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I"
2 Samuel 12:28: "of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest"
2 Samuel 17:26: "So Israel and Absalom pitched of Gilead."
2 Samuel 23:13: "of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim."
2 Samuel 24:5: "And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that"
1 Kings 16:15: "days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines."
1 Kings 16:16: "And the people that were encamped heard Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain"
1 Kings 20:27: "against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids;"
1 Kings 20:29: " And they pitched one over against seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh"
2 Kings 25:1: "his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against"
1 Chronicles 11:15: "of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim."
1 Chronicles 19:7: "of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon"
2 Chronicles 32:1: "came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought"
Ezra 8:15: "to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people,"
Nehemiah 11:30: "and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba unto the valley"
Job 19:12: "their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle."
Psalms 27:3: "Though a host should encamp me, my heart shall not fear: though"
Psalms 34:7: "The angel of the LORD encampeth them that fear him, and delivereth"
Psalms 53:5: "for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God"
Isaiah 29:1: "to Ariel, where David dwelt! add ye year to year;"
Isaiah 29:3: " And I will camp against thee round about, against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts"
Jeremiah 50:29: "all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none"
Jeremiah 52:4: "his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against"
Nahum 3:17: "are as the locusts, and thy captains which camp in the hedges in the cold day,"
Zechariah 9:8: " And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, and because of him that returneth: and no"
