H8466 H8466
encampment, encamping place (possibly textually corrupt; BDB suggests reading 'you shall hide yourselves' instead)
This noun appears only in 2 Kings 6:8 in a phrase that has puzzled interpreters. BDB notes the form is 'very strange' and suggests textual corruption, proposing to read instead 'you shall hide yourselves' based on the Syriac version. If the noun is original, it derives from the root for 'encamping' and would mean the place where one camps. The Elisha narrative context, describing military movements, could support either reading—whether Elisha knows where the enemy will camp or where they will hide.
Senses
1. sense 1 — In the ambiguous phrase from 2 Kings 6:8, this would denote the location or act of making camp, fitting Elisha's prophetic knowledge of Aramean military positions. However, the unusual form has led most scholars to suspect textual corruption, with the Syriac's 'hide' reading offering a simpler alternative that still fits the context of military intelligence. 1×
AR["مُخَيَّمي"]·ben["আমার-শিবির"]·DE["soll-sein-mein-Lager"]·EN["shall-be-my-camp"]·FR["devra-être-mon-camp"]·heb["תחנתי"]·HI["तखनोती"]·ID["perkemahanku"]·IT["dovrà-essere-mio-accampamento"]·jav["pakemahan-kawula"]·KO["나의-진영-이다"]·PT["meu-acampamento"]·RU["стоянка-моя"]·ES["mi-campamento"]·SW["kambi-yangu"]·TR["ordugahim"]·urd["میری-چھاؤنی"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [תַּ��ֲנָה] n.f. encamping, or encampment;—pl. sf. תַּחֲנֹתִי (si vera l.) אֶל־מְקוֹם פְּלֹנִי אַלְמֹנִי 2 K 6:8, unto such and such a place is my encamping; but form very strange. Read prob. תֵּחָֽבְאוּ ye shall hide yourselves, so 𝔖 Th Klo.