Quick Definition
παρεμβολή, ῆς, ἡ n.f. a camp, barracks, army in battle array
Strong's Definition
from a compound of 3844 and 1685; a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia)
KJV Usage: army, camp, castle
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ῆς | βάλλω
1.94 · Geographical Objects and Features · Population Centers
camp a temporary population center consisting of an encampment The equivalent of ‘camp’ in the context of HEB 13:11 is often ‘a city of tents’ or ‘where people lived only for a short time.’
7.22 · Constructions · Buildings
soldiers quarters, barracks a camp or barracks for soldiers In the NT παρεμβολή[b] is used to refer to the place where Roman troops were housed in Jerusalem and to the place in Rome where soldiers who accompanied Paul were quartered. Though many languages have a set phrase or technical expression for soldiers barracks, it may be necessary in some cases to use a descriptive phrase, for example, ‘where soldiers lived or where soldiers lived together.’
ACT 21:34 · ACT 21:37 · ACT 22:24 · ACT 23:10 · ACT 23:16 · ACT 23:32 · HEB 11:34
1 Compare the meaning of παρεμβολή[b] (7.22) as a construction consisting of barracks for soldiers. 2 παρεμβολή[b] ‘barracks’ differs from παρεμβολή[a] ‘camp’ (1.94) in that the latter is a temporary population center and not the actual construction of barracks or soldiers quarters.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παρ-εμ-βολή, -ῆς, 77, (fr. παρεμβάλλω, q. V-); a terpolation, insertion (into a discourse of matters foreign to the subject in hand, Aeschin.). 2. In the Maced. dialect (cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex. p. 30; Lod. ins ad Phryn. p. 877; [W. 22]) an encampment (Polyb., Diod., Joseph., Plut.) ; a. the camp of the Israelites in the desert (an enclosure within which their tents were pitched), Ex. xxix. 14; xix. 17; xxxii. 17; hence in Heb. xiii. 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, ib. 13. b. the barracks of the Roman soldiers, which at Jerusalem were in the castle Antonia: Acts xxi. 34,37; xxii. 24; xxiii. 10, 16, 32. 3. an army in line of batile: Heb. xi. 34; Rev. xx. 9 [here A. V. camp], (Ex. xiv. 19, 20; Judg. iv. 16; viii. 11; 1S. xiv.16; very often in Polyb.; Ael. v.h. 14,46). Often in Sept. for 72M, which signifies both camp and army; freq. in both senses in 1 Mace.; cf. Grimm on 1 Mace. iii. 8." map-ev-oxéw, -@; (see ἐνοχλέω) ; to cause trouble in a matter (παρά equiv. to mapa τινι πράγματι). to trouble, annoy: τινί, Acts xv. 19. (Sept.; Polyb., Diod., Plut., Epict., Leian., al.)
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, 13; Rev. 20:9; a standing camp, fortress, citadel, castle, Acts 21:34, 37; 22:24; 23:10, 16, 32*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
παρ-εμ-βολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< παρεμβάλλω), [in LXX chiefly for מַחֲנֶה;]
an insertion, interpolation (Æschin.).
In the Macedonian dialect (Rutherford, NPhr., 473), as a military term; an army in battle array: He 11:34 (cf. Ex 14:19, 20, Jg 4:16, al.; freq. in Polyb.);
a camp (Ex 29:14, al.): He 13:11, 13, Re 20:9;
barracks, soldiers' quarters: Ac 21:34, 37 22:24 23:10, 16, 32 28:16 (WH, txt., R, om.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παρεμβολή, - 2», 66 originally ‘‘ insertion, interpolation,”’ came as early as Theophilus (f7. 9) or Diphilus (fv. 57) to be used of a παρενοχλέω 49 ““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 aéczes in the NT with slightly varying connotations. Similar exx. from the papyri are BGU IV.1097° (time of Claudius or Nero) ἀπῆλθεν εἰς παρεμβολὴν στρατεύσασθαι, 76, I. 140° (time of Hadrian) προεί τέθη ἥδε ἡ ἐπιστολ(ὴ) ἢ ἐν τῇ ] π[α]Ἱρεμβολ(ῇ) TALS] χειμασία! ς λεγιῶνο(ς) τρίτης, P Oxy XII. 1481 (a soldier to his mother—ii/A.D.) διότι ἐν παρεμβολῇ ἠμί ( εἰμί), and from the inscrr. Sy// 318 (- 3 700)? (Thessalonica —B.C, 117) μετεπέμψατο els τὴν παρενβολήν. See also Kennedy Sowrces, 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! (a.p. 3352). 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% (A.D. 59).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παρεμβολή (parembolē) — barracks. παρεμ-βολή, ἡ, insertion, interpolation, ἑτέρων πραγμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. Grammars, parenthesis, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II. drawing up in battle-order, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; in Tactics, insertion of men in the ranks (distinct from παρένταξις and παρεμπλοκή), [Refs 1st c.BC+]
II. b company of soldiers, etc., [LXX]; host, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
II.2. encampment, [LXX+4th c.BC+]: generally, soldiers' quarters, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; barracks, [NT+2nd c.AD+]; name of an ἄμφοδον, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
III. ={παρεξειρεσία} (which see), [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
IV. in boxing and wrestling, π. βάλλειν trip an adversary by a twist of the leg, [Refs 1st c.AD+]