During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different places where they halted (Exodus 16:13; Numbers 2:3). The diagram here given shows the position of the different tribes and the form of the encampment during the wanderings, according to Numbers 1:53; 2:2-31; 3:29, 35, 38; 10:13-28.

The area of the camp would be in all about 3 square miles. After the Hebrews entered Palestine, the camps then spoken of were exclusively warlike (Joshua 11:5, 7; Judges 5:19, 21; 7:1; 1 Samuel 29:1; 30:9, etc.).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

2. (n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.

3. (n.) A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

4. (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

5. (n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.

6. (n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

7. (v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.

8. (v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.

9. (n.) To play the game called camp.