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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 31:14
    And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
  • Numbers 31:21
    And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
  • Numbers 31:27
    And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
  • Numbers 31:28
    And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
  • Numbers 31:32
    And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
  • Numbers 31:36
    And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
  • Numbers 31:48
    And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
  • Numbers 31:53
    ( For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
  • Numbers 32:27
    But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
  • Numbers 33:1
    These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.