Strong's #4264: machaneh (pronounced makh-an-eh')
from 2583; 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
machăneh
1) encampment, camp
1a) camp, place of encampment
1b) camp of armed host, army camp
1c) those who encamp, company, body of people
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2583
Usage:
This word is used 216 times:
1 Chronicles 14:16: "commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to"
2 Chronicles 14:13: "they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much"
2 Chronicles 18:33: "thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded."
2 Chronicles 22:1: "the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah"
2 Chronicles 31:2: "and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 32:21: "of valor, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame"
Psalms 27:3: "Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though"
Psalms 78:28: "And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations."
Psalms 106:16: "They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD."
Song of Solomon 6:13: "will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies."
Isaiah 37:36: "of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five"
Ezekiel 1:24: "the voice of speech, as the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings."
Ezekiel 4:2: "a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against"
Joel 2:11: "before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong"
Amos 4:10: "and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not"
Zechariah 14:15: "that shall be in these tents, as this plague."
