Mahanaim definition
Mahanaim means two camps. “The narrator (author) employs the number two throughout the scene: two camps, two families, two meetings—one with God and Esau—and two brothers” (Waltke, Genesis, 441).
Mahanaim means 'two camps'. The army of Jacob's enemies was matched by an invisible army of Angels which were on Jacob's side, weak in faith as he was. We must remember that each life crisis, each time we seem hopelessly outnumbered, is in fact a Mahanaim situation for us.