encamp

encamp
    v 1: live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this
         summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The
         houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: {camp},
         {encamp}, {camp out}, {bivouac}, {tent}]
    

Encamp \En*camp"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Encamped} (?; 215); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Encamping}.]
   To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary
   habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch
   tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer
   time, as an army or a company traveling.
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         The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of
         Rephaim.                                 --1 Chron. xi.
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Encamp \En*camp"\, v. t.
   To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or
   quarters.
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         Bid him encamp his soldiers.             --Shak.
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Encamp
An encampment was the resting-place for a longer or shorter
period of an army or company of travellers (Ex. 13:20; 14:19;
Josh. 10:5; 11:5).

  The manner in which the Israelites encamped during their march
through the wilderness is described in Num. 2 and 3. The order
of the encampment (see {CAMP}) was preserved in the
march (Num. 2:17), the signal for which was the blast of two
silver trumpets. Detailed regulations affecting the camp for
sanitary purposes are given (Lev. 4:11, 12; 6:11; 8:17; 10:4, 5;
13:46; 14:3; Num. 12:14, 15; 31:19; Deut. 23:10, 12).

  Criminals were executed without the camp (Lev. 4:12; comp.
John 19:17, 20), and there also the young bullock for a
sin-offering was burnt (Lev. 24:14; comp. Heb. 13:12).

  In the subsequent history of Israel frequent mention is made
of their encampments in the time of war (Judg. 7:18; 1 Sam.
13:2, 3, 16, 23; 17:3; 29:1; 30:9, 24). The temple was sometimes
called "the camp of the Lord" (2 Chr. 31:2, R.V.; comp. Ps.
78:28). The multitudes who flocked to David are styled "a great
host (i.e., "camp;" Heb. mahaneh), like the host of God" (1 Chr.
12:22).