ma.cha.neh-dan is the place-name given to the site west of Kiriath-jearim where a group camped.

The sole attested use identifies a place west of Kiriath-jearim, named in connection with a group camping there.

1. Place-name for a campsite · dominant

   In Judges 18:12, the proper noun occurs in the statement that the place was still called by this name and lay west of Kiriath-jearim after the group camped there; the APB renders the location as “Mahaneh-dan.”

   Judges 18:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Judges 18:12, the APB presents the term as the name “Mahaneh-dan” for the place associated with the camping episode.