צָבָאtsâbâʼ
wage war, serve
Pronunciation: tsaw-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6633
Meanings
Qal
1. wage war, fight (Numbers 31:7; Isaiah 29:7; Isaiah 29:8)
2. serve, at sacred tent, Levites (Numbers 4:23; Numbers 8:24; Exodus 38:8)
Hiph`il: muster. (2 Kings 25:19; Jeremiah 52:25)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 38:8 Bezalel made the bronze washbasin and its bronze stand from bronze mirrors donated by the women who served at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
- Numbers 4:23 List all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are eligible to serve in the Tabernacle.
- Numbers 8:24 “This is the rule the Levites must follow: They must begin serving in the Tabernacle at the age of twenty-five,
- Numbers 31:7 They attacked Midian as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men.
- Numbers 31:42 Half of the plunder belonged to the people of Israel, and Moses separated it from the half belonging to the fighting men.
- 1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old, but he was aware of what his sons were doing to the people of Israel. He knew, for instance, that his sons were seducing the young women who assisted at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).