from a compound of G3844 and G1685; a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia):--army, camp, castle.
an encampment
the camp of Israel in the desert
used for the city of Jerusalem, inasmuch as that was to the Israelites what formerly the encampment had been in the desert
of the sacred congregation or assembly of Israel, as it had been gathered formerly in camps in the wilderness
the barracks of the Roman soldiers, which at Jerusalem were in the castle of Antonia