Words the Bible translates as division
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 14 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
- maḥaloqetמַחֲלֹקֶתa division: a distinct section marked off from a larger organized body
- gedudגְּדוּדa band of armed men who move and act together, most often to raid or plunder, though it can also mean a formal unit within a standing army, or the raid itself.
- ephēmeriaἐφημερίαdivisionnot studied yet
- degelדֶּגֶלa military standard: the raised emblem a body of people rally around, camp under, and march behind, and by extension the division mustered beneath it
- ahiresisαἵρεσιςa recognized religious party: a group inside a larger faith, marked out by the teaching and practice it has chosen to hold
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- a faction: a rival grouping that forms inside a community when people push their own line
- schismaσχίσμαa split: the gap left where something that used to be one piece has come apart, whether a torn garment or a divided group of people.
- diamerismosδιαμερισμόςdivisionnot studied yet
- dichostasiaδιχοστασίαdissension: a community's open split into rival factions, the point where quarreling breaks out into two camps facing off.
- merismosμερισμόςdivisionnot studied yet
- peluggahפְּלֻגָּהdivisionnot studied yet
- ḥaluqqahחֲלֻקָּהdivisionnot studied yet
- miphlaggahמִפְלַגָּהdivisionnot studied yet
- peluggahפְּלֻגָּהdivisionnot studied yet
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