Lexical Summary
sabaóth: Hosts, Armies
Original Word: σαβαώθ
Part of Speech: Hebrew Form (Indeclinable)
Transliteration: sabaóth
Pronunciation: sah-bah-OHTH
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-ah-owth')
KJV: sabaoth
NASB: Sabaoth
Word Origin: [of Hebrew origin (H6635 (צָּבָא צֶּבָאָה - hosts) in feminine plural)]
1. armies
2. sabaoth (i.e. tsebaoth), a military epithet of God
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Sabaoth, Lord of Armies
Of Hebrew origin (tsaba' in feminine plural); armies; sabaoth (i.e. Tsebaoth), a military epithet of God -- sabaoth.
see HEBREW tsaba'
HELPS Word-studies
4519 sabaṓth (the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew term, bā̓āh, OT 6635) – host(s), an innumerable throng (limitless company). 4519 /sabaṓth ("the Lord of hosts") only occurs in Ro 9:29 and Js 4:5, and correlates to the familiar phrase, "the Lord of hosts" in the OT and LXX.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originof Hebrew origin
tsaba in fem. pl.
DefinitionSabaoth, i.e. armies
NASB TranslationSabaoth (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4519: σαβαώθσαβαώθ (Hebrew
צְבָאות, plural of
צָבָא, an army):
κύριος σαβαώθ (
צְבָאות יְהוָה) (
A. V. Lord of Sabaoth), i. e.
lord of the armies namely, of Israel, as those who under the leadership and protection of Jehovah maintain his cause in war (cf. Schrader, Ueber d. ursprüngl. Sinn des Gottesnamens Jahve Zebaoth, in the Jahrbb. f. protest. Theol. for 1875, p. 316ff, and in
Schenkel see 702f; cf. Herm. Schultz, Alttest. Theol. ii., p. 96ff; (
B. D. under the word