Dict: easton - Camp

easton:

Camp @ During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different places where they halted kjv@Exodus:16:13; kjv@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 kjv@Numbers:1:53 kjv@Numbers:2:2-31 kjv@Numbers: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 kjv@Joshua:11:5-7; kjv@Judges:5:19-21 kjv@Judges:7:1; kjv@1Samuel:29:1 kjv@1Samuel:30:9, etc.).

Camphire @ (Heb. copher), mentioned in Cant. 1:14 (R.V., "henna-flowers"); 4:13 (R.V., "henna"), is the al-henna of the Arabs, a native of Egypt, producing clusters of small white and yellow odoriferous flowers, whence is made the Oleum Cyprineum. From its leaves is made the peculiar auburn dye with which Eastern women stain their nails and the palms of their hands. It is found only at Engedi, on the shore of the Dead Sea. It is known to botanists by the name Lawsonia alba or inermis, a kind of privet, which grows 6 or 8 feet high. The margin of the Authorized Version of the passages above referred to has "or cypress," not with reference to the conifer so called, but to the circumstance that one of the most highly appreciated species of this plant grew in the island of Cyprus.