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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
encamp \encamp"\, 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.
   1913 webster

         the host of the philistines encamped in the valley of
         rephaim.                                 --1 chron. xi.
                                                  15.
   1913 webster
see also:
encamped encamping 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
encamp \encamp"\, v. t.
   to form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or
   quarters.
   1913 webster

         bid him encamp his soldiers.             --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
encamp
     v : 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,
          camp out, bivouac, tent
see also:
camp camp out bivouac tent 
[4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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.
   
see also:
camp 

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