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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Jeremiah 51:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
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Jeremiah 51:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
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Jeremiah 51:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
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Jeremiah 51:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
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Jeremiah 51:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
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Jeremiah 51:57 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
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Jeremiah 51:58 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
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Jeremiah 52:25 · 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 seven trusted royal advisers. 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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Daniel 8:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth and trampled them.
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Daniel 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
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Daniel 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did.
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Daniel 8:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
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Daniel 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, and it concerned a great conflict. And the understanding of the message was given to him in a vision.
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Hosea 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the LORD God of Hosts, the LORD is His name of renown.
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Source alternate reference: 12.6
Amos 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.
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Amos 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
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Amos 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
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Amos 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
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Amos 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
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Amos 5:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
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Amos 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
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Amos 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
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Amos 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
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Micah 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
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Nahum 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will reduce your chariots to cinders, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
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Source alternate reference: 2.14
Nahum 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
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Habakkuk 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
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Zephaniah 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,
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Zephaniah 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
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Zephaniah 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
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Haggai 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
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Haggai 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
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Haggai 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
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Haggai 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
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Haggai 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
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Haggai 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work! For I am with you, declares the LORD of Hosts.
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Haggai 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
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Haggai 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
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Haggai 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.
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Haggai 2:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
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Haggai 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.
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Haggai 2:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
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Zechariah 1:3 · BSB · 3 occurrences
So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
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Zechariah 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
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Zechariah 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
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Zechariah 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
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Zechariah 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
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Zechariah 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’
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Zechariah 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
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Zechariah 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
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Source alternate reference: 2.12

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