Midvash

צָבָאtsâbâʼ

army, war, warfare

Pronunciation: tsaw-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6635

Meanings

1. army, host

a. organized for war (Judges 8:6; Judges 9:29; Isaiah 34:2)

b. host, (organized body) of angels (Luke 2:13; 1 Kings 22:19; 2 Chronicles 18:18)

c. of sun, moon and stars (Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 17:3; 2 Kings 17:16)

d. of the entire creation (Genesis 2:1)

2. war, warfare, service (Numbers 1:3; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 1:1-200)

3. service

a. of Levites in sacred places (Numbers 4:3; Numbers 4:23; Numbers 4:30)

b. of hard service of troubled life (Job 7:1; Job 14:14; Isaiah 40:2)

4. צְבָאוֺת, in name of ׳ י as God of war (1 Samuel 17:45)

b. God of hosts his name (2 Samuel 5:10; Amos 5:14; Amos 5:15)

c. Sebaoth (James 5:4; Romans 9:29; 1 Samuel 1:3)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 484 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:1 So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.
  • Genesis 21:22 About this time, Abimelech came with Phicol, his army commander, to visit Abraham. “God is obviously with you, helping you in everything you do,” Abimelech said.
  • Genesis 21:32 After making their covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech left with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned home to the land of the Philistines.
  • Genesis 26:26 One day King Abimelech came from Gerar with his adviser, Ahuzzath, and also Phicol, his army commander.
  • Exodus 6:26 The Aaron and Moses named in this list are the same ones to whom the Lord said, “Lead the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.”
  • Exodus 7:4 Even then Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you. So I will bring down my fist on Egypt. Then I will rescue my forces—my people, the Israelites—from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
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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).