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צָבָא H6635

tsâbâʼ

tsaw-baw'

or (feminine) צְבָאָה; from צָבָא; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship); appointed time, ([phrase]) army, ([phrase]) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

צָבָא 485 n.m. army, war, warfare
1 army, host
2 war, warfare, service
3 service
4 צְבָאוֹת, in name of י׳ as God of war, prob. first in time of warlike David (some connect with sacred ark, but ark older)

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

463 occurrences

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  • Numbers 10:24
    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
  • Numbers 10:25
    And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
  • Numbers 10:26
    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
  • Numbers 10:27
    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
  • Numbers 10:28
    Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
  • Numbers 26:2
    Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
  • Numbers 31:3
    And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
  • Numbers 31:4
    Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
  • Numbers 31:5
    So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
  • Numbers 31:6
    And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.