Mahanaim: meaning of the name

Mahanaim in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Mahanaim

• Mahanaim

Mahanaim in Scripture

“Mahanaim” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 32:2

  And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

• Joshua 13:26

  And from Heshbon unto Ramath–mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

• Joshua 13:30

  And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:

• Joshua 21:38

  And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

• 2 Samuel 2:8

  But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

• 2 Samuel 2:12

  And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

• 2 Samuel 2:29

  And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.

• 2 Samuel 17:24

  Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.