Barracks
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G3925 is a military noun that can identify an army in formation, a camp, or the barracks where soldiers are quartered. In a Jewish scriptural setting it may also carry the camp language associated with Israel’s ordered life, sacrifice, exclusion, and holiness.
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G3925 is a military noun that can identify an army in formation, a camp, or the barracks where soldiers are quartered. In a Jewish scriptural setting it may also carry the camp language associated with Israel’s ordered life, sacrifice, exclusion, and holiness.
The BSB source-word alignment has 11 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include barracks (6), camp (3), armies {to flight} (1), vvv (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 19:43. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (6), Hebrews (3), Luke (1), Revelation (1).
G3925 is a military noun that can identify an army in formation, a camp, or the barracks where soldiers are quartered. In a Jewish scriptural setting it may also carry the camp language associated with Israel’s ordered life, sacrifice, exclusion, and holiness. The immediate scene must decide whether the emphasis lies on troops, protected quarters, communal boundaries, or theological movement outside the camp.
In Acts. 21. 34, a Roman commander takes Paul into the barracks because the crowd’s uproar prevents a reliable account of what happened; military space functions as custody and temporary protection. In Heb. 13. 13, believers are summoned to go to Jesus outside the camp and bear His disgrace, following the preceding contrast between sacrificial bodies burned outside and Christ suffering outside the city gate.
In Rev. 20. 9, hostile nations surround the camp of the saints and the beloved city before divine judgment ends the attack. G3925 opens teaching on protected and contested space, costly identification with Christ, and God’s final defense of His people. It corrects any assumption that the word camp always refers to the church or that outside always means spiritually unclean.
Its contexts can reverse expected honor: barracks may protect a prisoner from a mob, and faithfulness may require joining the rejected Christ beyond an accepted boundary.
G3925 retains its military sense across army, camp, and barracks contexts, while Hebrews draws on Israel’s sacrificial geography and Revelation uses besieged-camp imagery in an apocalyptic scene. The noun names organized or bounded space; each author supplies the theological significance through narrative, typology, and eschatological vision.
Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, and some another. And since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks.
Unable to determine the truth amid conflicting shouts, the Roman commander orders Paul taken into the barracks, where custody removes him from the immediate violence of the crowd.
Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
Hebrews calls believers to go to Jesus outside the camp and bear His disgrace, joining the rejected Messiah rather than seeking security in accepted religious status.
And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
In John’s final-judgment vision, the gathered rebels surround the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire from heaven ends the assault.
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Greek word. Military encampment or fortified position, ranging from battle formations to soldiers' quarters.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
10 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
a camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read versea camp, barracks, army in battle array
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
παρεμβολή is built from these roots:
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G3925 places people within spaces shaped by force and belonging, but those spaces do not carry one moral value. Paul enters Roman barracks as a prisoner, yet the commander’s decision also removes him from a crowd that might kill him before the facts are known. Hebrews takes Israel’s camp and sacrificial boundary into a Christ-centered exhortation: Jesus suffered outside the gate, so His people must accept disgrace rather than making respectable inclusion their highest good.
Revelation portrays the saints’ camp surrounded by final hostility, but their deliverance comes from God, not from a superior military counterattack. The three scenes distinguish custody, discipleship, and eschatological protection. They also reveal that inside and outside are relational terms. Safety within barracks does not make Rome righteous; disgrace outside the camp does not make Christ unclean; encirclement does not mean God’s saints have been abandoned.
Responsible teaching uses the military noun precisely while refusing to turn the church into an armed camp or every conflict into Revelation’s last battle. Christ, His suffering, and God’s judgment determine the theological meaning of the boundary.
Heb.13.13
G3925 is a Greek military noun used for an army drawn up, an encampment, or soldiers’ barracks. Hebrews applies camp language within Israel’s sacrificial framework, while Acts uses the concrete Roman-barracks sense and Revelation uses apocalyptic camp imagery.
Hebrews explicitly draws the camp boundary from Israel’s sacrificial practice into its teaching about Jesus suffering outside the gate. This is a canonical and typological connection grounded in the book’s argument. It does not mean every Old Testament camp occurrence predicts the church or that the Hebrew and Greek camp nouns have identical ranges.