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 Chronicles 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
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Source alternate reference: 12.25
1 Chronicles 12:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From Simeon: 7,100 mighty men of valor, ready for battle.
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Source alternate reference: 12.26
1 Chronicles 12:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.
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Source alternate reference: 12.34
1 Chronicles 12:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From Asher: 40,000 fit for service, prepared for battle.
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Source alternate reference: 12.37
1 Chronicles 12:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh there: 120,000 armed with every kind of weapon of war.
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Source alternate reference: 12.38
1 Chronicles 17:7 · 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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1 Chronicles 17:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.
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1 Chronicles 18:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
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1 Chronicles 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.
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1 Chronicles 19:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
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1 Chronicles 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.
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1 Chronicles 20:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
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1 Chronicles 25:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Additionally, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with the accompaniment of lyres, harps, and cymbals. The following is the list of the men who performed this service:
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1 Chronicles 26:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This Shelomith and his brothers were in charge of all the treasuries for the things dedicated by King David, by the heads of families who were the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and by the army commanders.
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1 Chronicles 27:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He was a descendant of Perez and chief of all the army commanders for the first month.
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1 Chronicles 27:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The third army commander, as chief for the third month, was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest. There were 24,000 men in his division.
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1 Chronicles 27:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada son of Benaiah, then by Abiathar. Joab was the commander of the king’s army.
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2 Chronicles 17:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and next to him, Jehozabad, and with him 180,000 armed for battle.
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2 Chronicles 18:18 · 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 on His right and on His left.
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2 Chronicles 25:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
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2 Chronicles 25:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.
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2 Chronicles 26:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Uzziah had an army ready for battle that went out to war by assigned divisions, as recorded by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officers.
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2 Chronicles 26:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
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2 Chronicles 26:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
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2 Chronicles 28:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
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2 Chronicles 28:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.
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2 Chronicles 33:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
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2 Chronicles 33:5 · 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 Chronicles 33:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
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Nehemiah 9:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
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Job 7:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
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Job 10:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
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Job 14:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
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Psalms 24:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who is He, this King of Glory? The LORD of Hosts—He is the King of Glory. Selah
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Psalms 33:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
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Psalms 44:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
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Source alternate reference: 44.10
Psalms 46:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
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Source alternate reference: 46.8
Psalms 46:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
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Source alternate reference: 46.12
Psalms 48:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
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Source alternate reference: 48.9
Psalms 59:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
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Source alternate reference: 59.6
Psalms 60:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
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Source alternate reference: 60.12
Psalms 68:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Lord gives the command; a great company of women proclaim it:
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Source alternate reference: 68.12
Psalms 68:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.
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Source alternate reference: 68.13
Psalms 69:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May those who hope in You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of Hosts; may those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel.
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Source alternate reference: 69.7
Psalms 80:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
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Source alternate reference: 80.5
Psalms 80:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
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Source alternate reference: 80.8
Psalms 80:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
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Source alternate reference: 80.15
Psalms 80:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
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Source alternate reference: 80.20
Psalms 84:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
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Source alternate reference: 84.2
Psalms 84:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.
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Source alternate reference: 84.4

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