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# encamp

verb (encamps, encamped, encamping)

«encamp» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To encamp is to set up tents or a camp in the open and stay there for a time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encamp/#m1)

### In the lessons

soldiers, knights or travellers stop for the night and pitch their tents

### Examples

- The soldiers encamped by the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encamp/#x1)
- We encamped under the stars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encamp/#x2)
- The knights encamped where they stood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encamp/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Used for Israel's stops in the wilderness and for the patriarchs' stays. Each stop was at God's command.

**Interpretation.** Tradition counts forty-two stops in the wilderness, and the commentators read them as stages in the soul's journey. Rashi notes that Israel camped and journeyed at God's word.

### Examples

- And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. (Torah GEN.26.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/encamp/#x1)
- And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. (Torah EXO.13.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/encamp/#x2)
- And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters. (Torah EXO.15.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/encamp/#x3)
- Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! (Prophets ISA.29.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/encamp/#x4)
- And they encamped one over against the other seven days. (Prophets 1KI.20.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/encamp/#x5)
- So they encamped from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom. (Writings NEH.11.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/encamp/#x6)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «encamp» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encamp/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«encamp» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/encamp.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «encamp» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/encamp/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«encamp» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/encamp.html) on Mova free.