Words the Bible translates as hosts
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- tsavaצָבָאthe plural in the divine title "the LORD of hosts": God named as the one every marshaled force answers to
+3 more meanings
- an army: a body of fighting men called up, counted, and drawn up under a commander
- 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
- sabaōthσαβαώθhostsnot studied yet
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