The old idea here is simple: an army on the march halts and pitches its tents. From that one image, to camp, modern Hebrew built its whole vocabulary of stopping and settling. The car that parks, the bus station, the shop on the corner, the military camp: they are all the same gesture, a body that was moving and now rests in one spot. Pour ח־נ־ה into a verb and you get the act of halting; pour it into a noun mould and you get the place where the halt happens. Every word here is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
Two binyanim are lexicalized: the plain pa'al (you camp, you park yourself) and the causative hif'il (you park the car, you put something into its resting spot). The passive and reflexive forms exist in the system but Hebrew does not use them for this root, which is normal.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.