Definition

a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia)

Etymology

from a compound of G3844 (παρά) and G1685 (ἐμβάλλω);

Where the KJV renders it

• army
• camp
• castle

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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