tsa.va H6635

צָבָא (tsa.va) means “army” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

צָבָא Hebrew · H6635 485 tagged occurrences in 462 verses

Pronunciation guide: tsaw-baw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6635A

צָבָא · tsa.va · army

: army 1) that which goes forth, army, war, warfare, host 1a) army, host 1a1) host (of organised army) 1a2) host (of angels) 1a3) of sun, moon, and stars 1a4) of whole creation 1b) war, warfare, service, go out to war 1c) service

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TBESH · H6635B

צָבָא · tsa.va · Hosts

The Hosts (of the Lord) Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)

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TBESH · H6635H

צָבָא · tsa.va · army: war

: war 1) that which goes forth, army, war, warfare, host 1a) army, host 1a1) host (of organised army) 1a2) host (of angels) 1a3) of sun, moon, and stars 1a4) of whole creation 1b) war, warfare, service, go out to war 1c) service

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TBESH · H6635I

צָבָא · tsa.va · army: duty

: duty 1) that which goes forth, army, war, warfare, host 1a) army, host 1a1) host (of organised army) 1a2) host (of angels) 1a3) of sun, moon, and stars 1a4) of whole creation 1b) war, warfare, service, go out to war 1c) service

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or (feminine) צְבָאָה; from H6633 (צָבָא); a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)

KJV glosses: appointed time, ([phrase]) army, ([phrase]) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).

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How translators render H6635

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
of hosts	283
army	17
the host	16
in the army	15
of the army	13
and his division	12
the army	8
the division	8
the divisions	6
of his army	5
to serve	5
to war	5
by their divisions	4
for battle	3
for war	3
in the divisions	3
into battle	3
with our armies	3
divisions	2
of the host	2
of their army	2
the stars	2
their divisions	2
their host	2
troops	2
an army	1
and all their stars	1
and by the army	1
and of the host	1
and the host	1
and their armies	1
company	1
conflict	1
consigned to labor	1
finally the divisions	1
for warfare	1
from	1
from performing	1
hardships	1
her army to destruction	1
her forced labor	1
his heavenly hosts	1
his hosts	1
his troops	1
next the divisions	1
of his forces	1
of hosts declare	1
of my hard service	1
of the armies	1
ready for battle	1
the hosts	1
the military	1
the service	1
the starry host	1
the war	1
their vast array	1
then the divisions	1
to battle	1
to worship the host	1
to your army	1
trained	1
vvv	1
were army	1
with all their armies	1
your army	1
your divisions	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
of hosts	285
of the host	26
to war	20
and his host	12
and all the host	8
and over the host	8
according to their armies	7
to the war	5
all the host	4
for war	4
into the service	4
of his host	4
of war	4
the host	4
throughout their armies	4
to battle	4
and over his host	3
over the host	3
throughout their hosts	3
and all their host	2
army	2
by their armies	2
for all the host	2
for the war	2
host	2
of the hosts	2
with our armies	2
against them in battle	1
all her host	1
an army	1
and all the host of them	1
and an host	1
and for all the host	1
and the host	1
and to all the host	1
and war	1
as the host	1
but the time appointed	1
captain of the host	1
for them throughout all the host	1
for warfare	1
from	1
from the war	1
his hosts	1
in his room over the host	1
in the host	1
into the host	1
it came to pass that all the hosts	1
let not the army	1
mine armies	1
not an appointed time	1
of armies	1
of his army	1
of my appointed time	1
of soldiers	1
of the armies	1
of the army	1
of their host	1
of them that were apt to the war	1
of whose host	1
of yourselves unto the war	1
or any of the host	1
over all the host	1
the company	1
the host of	1
the service	1
their host	1
them all and the host	1
them by their armies	1
them to the war	1
thine army	1
to the host	1
to wait	1
unto all the host	1
unto her that her warfare	1
unto thine army	1
upon all their armies	1
waiting	1
war	1
with all their host	1
with our hosts	1
with their armies	1
ye him all his hosts	1
your armies	1

Verses containing H6635

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1 Samuel 17:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
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1 Samuel 26:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.
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1 Samuel 28:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
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2 Samuel 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
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2 Samuel 3:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Joab and all his troops arrived, he was informed, “Abner son of Ner came to see the king, who sent him on his way in peace.”
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2 Samuel 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.
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2 Samuel 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name—the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.
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2 Samuel 6:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts.
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2 Samuel 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.
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2 Samuel 7:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
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2 Samuel 8:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
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2 Samuel 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.
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2 Samuel 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
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2 Samuel 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.
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2 Samuel 17:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
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2 Samuel 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
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Source alternate reference: 19.14
2 Samuel 20:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;
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1 Kings 1:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he has not invited your servant Solomon.
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1 Kings 1:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
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1 Kings 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
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1 Kings 2:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
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1 Kings 2:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
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1 Kings 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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1 Kings 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.
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1 Kings 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”
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1 Kings 16:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and the people in the camp heard that Zimri had conspired against the king and struck him down. So there in the camp that very day, all Israel proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel.
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1 Kings 18:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elijah said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Ahab today.”
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1 Kings 19:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
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1 Kings 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
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1 Kings 22:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
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2 Kings 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.
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2 Kings 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
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2 Kings 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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2 Kings 17:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
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2 Kings 19:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
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2 Kings 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
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2 Kings 21:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
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2 Kings 23:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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2 Kings 23:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
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2 Kings 25:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
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1 Chronicles 5:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.
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1 Chronicles 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In addition to them, according to their genealogy, they had 36,000 troops for battle, for they had many wives and children.
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1 Chronicles 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle.
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1 Chronicles 7:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All these were the descendants of Asher—heads of their families, choice and mighty men of valor, and chiefs among the leaders. The number of men fit for battle, recorded in their genealogies, was 26,000.
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1 Chronicles 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David became greater and greater, for the LORD of Hosts was with him.
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1 Chronicles 12:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
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Source alternate reference: 12.9
1 Chronicles 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These Gadites were army commanders, the least of whom was a match for a hundred, and the greatest for a thousand.
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Source alternate reference: 12.15
1 Chronicles 12:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They helped David against the raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and commanders in the army.
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Source alternate reference: 12.22
1 Chronicles 12:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:
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Source alternate reference: 12.24

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