Words the Bible translates as army
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- tsavaצָבָאan army: a body of fighting men called up, counted, and drawn up under a commander
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- the host of heaven: the ordered array above, whether the stars or the heavenly beings around God
- service: an assigned term of duty, from being liable for war to a stretch of imposed hardship with a set end
- the plural in the divine title "the LORD of hosts": God named as the one every marshaled force answers to
- ḥayilחַיִלarmy: an armed force, the fighting men a ruler commands
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- strength: effective power, the capacity to act and to prevail
- wealth: the resources, property, and substance a person or nation has amassed
- worth: capability and strength of character that make a person able and admirable
- maḥanehמַחֲנֶהan encampment: a body of people gathered in one place, whether an army in the field or a traveling community at rest
- stratiaστρατιάarmynot studied yet
- ma'arakhahמַעֲרָכָהan ordered rank or row of things set in place, above all an army drawn up in battle line
- strateumaστράτευμαa body of armed men acting under one commander: an army in the field, or any smaller force of soldiers sent out at his order.
- ḥayilחַיִלan army: the armed men a ruler commands, his strength counted out in bodies
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- strength in action: force brought to bear, whether against people, in a fighter's body, or in a voice raised to a shout
- alqumאַלְקוּםarmynot studied yet
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