Quick Definition
a camp, barracks, army in battle array
Strong's Definition
a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia)
Derivation: from a compound of G3844 (παρά) and G1685 (ἐμβάλλω);
KJV Usage: army, camp, castle
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παρεμβολή, παρεμβολῆς. ἡ (from παρεμβάλλω, which see);
1. interpolation, insertion (into a discourse of matters foreign to the subject in hand, Aeschines).
2. In the Maced. dialect (cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex., p. 30; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 377; (Winers Grammar, 22)) an encampment (Pclyb., Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch);
a. the camp of the Israelites in the desert (an enclosure within which their tents were pitched), Exo_29:14; Exo_19:17; Exo_32:17; hence, in Heb_13:11 used for the city of Jerusalem, inasmuch as that was to the Israelites what formerly the encampment had been in the desert; of the sacred congregation or assembly of Israel, as that had been gathered formerly in camps in the wilderness, Heb_13:13.
b. the barracks of the Roman soldiers, which at Jerusalem were in the castle Antonia: Act_21:34; Act_21:37; Act_22:24; Act_23:10; Act_23:16; Act_23:32.
3. an army in line of battle: Heb_11:34; Rev_20:9 (here A. V. camp), (Exo_14:19-20; Jdg_4:16; Jdg_8:11; 1Sa_14:16; very often in Polybius; Aelian v. h. 14, 46). Often in the Sept. for ξΗηΒπΖδ, which signifies both camp and army; frequent in both senses in 1 Maccabees (); cf. Grimm on 1Ma_3:3.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παρεμβολή parembolē 10x
an insertion besides; later, a marshalling of an army; an array of battle, army, Heb_11:34 ;
a camp, Heb_13:11 ; Heb_13:13 ; Rev_20:9 ;
a standing camp, fortress, citadel, castle, Act_21:34 ; Act_21:37 ; Act_22:24 ; Act_23:10 ; Act_23:16 ; Act_23:32 * barracks; camp.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
παρ -εμ -βολή , -ῆς , ἡ
( <παρεμβάλλω ),
[in LXX chiefly for H4264 ;]
1. an insertion, interpolation (Ζschin.).
2. In the Macedonian dialect ( Rutherford, NPhr. , 473), as a military term;
(a) an army in battle array: Heb_11:34 ( cf. Exo_14:19-20 , Jdg_4:16 , al. ; freq . in Polyb .);
(b) a camp ( Exo_29:14 , al. ) : Heb_13:11 ; Heb_13:13 Rev_20:9 ;
(c) barracks, soldiers' quarters: Act_21:34 ; Act_21:37 ; Act_22:24 ; Act_23:10 ; Act_23:16 ; Act_23:32 ; Act_28:16 ( WH , txt ., R , om .).†
παρ -εμ -βάλλω ,
[in LXX freq . and chiefly for H4264 ;]
1. to put in beside or between, interpose.
2. In late writers ( Polyb ., al. , LXX ) as technical military term;
(a) of soldiers, to draw up in line ( freq . in 1Ma_2:32 , al. );
(b) of siege works, to cast up: c . acc et dat ., χάρακά σοι , Luk_19:43 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παρεμβολή [page 492]
παρεμβολή , originally insertion, interpolation, came as early as Theophilus ( fr. 9) or Diphilus ( fr. 57) to be used of a camp or encampment. [Phryn. ed. Lob. p. 377 describes the word as δεινῶς Μακεδονικόν , but see Thumb Hellen. p. 224.] It is so used in the LXX and decies in the NT with slightly varying connotations.
Similar exx. from the papyri are BGU IV. 1097 .6 (time of Claudius or Nero) ἀπῆλ̣θεν εἰς παρεμβολὴν̣ στρατ̣ε̣υ̣σασ̣θ̣αι , ib. I. 140 .5 (time of Hadrian) προε [τέθη ἥδε ἡ ἐπιστολ (ὴ )? ἐν τῇ ] π [α ]ρεμ̣βολ (ῇ ) τ̣η̣̑ [ς ] χειμασία [ς λεγιῶνο (ς ) τρίτης , P Oxy XII. 1481 .3 (a soldier to his mother ii/A.D.) διότι ἐν παρεμβολῇ ἠμί ( l. εἰμί ), and from the inscrr. Syll 318 (= .3 700) .20 (Thessalonica B.C. 117) μετεπέμψατο εἰς τὴν παρενβολήν . See also Kennedy Sources , p. 15.
Interesting reff. to the great παρεμβολή near the suburb of Nicopolis will be found in the letter on the Meletian schism, P Lond 1914 .10 al . (A.D. 335?). For the village named Παρεμβολή in the Arsinoite nome, see P Ryl II. 330 (A.D. 130), and the editor s note to P Hamb I. 2 .3 (A.D. 59).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παρεμβολή παρεμβολή, ἡ, [Etym: παρεμβάλλω] "insertion, interpolation", Aeschin. "an encampment, fortress", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρ-εμ-βολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(παρεμβάλλω), [in LXX chiefly for מַחֲנֶה ;]
__1. an insertion, interpolation (Æschin.)
__2. In the Macedonian dialect (Rutherford, NPhr., 473), as a military term;
__(a) an army in battle array: Heb.11:34 (cf. Exo.14:19-20, Jdg.4:16, al.; frequently in Polyb.);
__(b) a camp (Exo.29:14, al.) : Heb.13:11, 13 Rev.20:9;
__(with) barracks, soldiers' quarters: Act.21:34, 37 22:24 23:10, 16 23:32 28:16 (WH, txt., R, om.).†
παρ-εμ-βάλλω,
[in LXX frequently and chiefly for מַחֲנֶה ;]
__1. to put in beside or between, interpose.
__2. In late writers (Polyb., al., LXX) as technical military term;
__(a) of soldiers, to draw up in line (frequently in 1Ma.2:32, al.);
__(b) of siege works, to cast up: with accusative and dative, χάρακά σοι, Luk.19:43.†
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