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Ge 32:2 Strong Concordance And when Jacob [03290] saw them [07200], he said [0559], This is God's [0430] host [04264]: and he called [07121] the name [08034] of that place [04725] Mahanaim [04266].
  King James And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Mahanaim--"two hosts," or "camps." The place was situated between mount Gilead and the Jabbok, near the banks of that brook.
 
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13 And he said [0559], Go [03212] and spy [07200] where [0351] he is, that I may send [07971] and fetch [03947] him. And it was told [05046] him, saying [0559], Behold, he is in Dothan [01886].
14 Therefore sent [07971] he thither horses [05483], and chariots [07393], and a great [03515] host [02428]: and they came [0935] by night [03915], and compassed [05362] the city [05892] about [05362].
15 And when the servant [08334] of the man [0376] of God [0430] was risen [06965] early [07925], and gone forth [03318], behold, an host [02428] compassed [05437] the city [05892] both with horses [05483] and chariots [07393]. And his servant [05288] said [0559] unto him, Alas [0162], my master [0113]! how shall we do [06213]?
16 And he answered [0559], Fear [03372] not: for they that be with us are more [07227] than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha [0477] prayed [06419], and said [0559], LORD [03068], I pray thee, open [06491] his eyes [05869], that he may see [07200]. And the LORD [03068] opened [06491] the eyes [05869] of the young man [05288]; and he saw [07200]: and, behold, the mountain [02022] was full [04390] of horses [05483] and chariots [07393] of fire [0784] round about [05439] Elisha [0477].
38 And out of the tribe [04294] of Gad [01410], Ramoth [07433] in Gilead [01568] with her suburbs [04054], to be a city [05892] of refuge [04733] for the slayer [07523]; and Mahanaim [04266] with her suburbs [04054],