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צָבָא
tsâbâʼ · Hebrew · Strong's H6635 · 485 occurrences
The KJV renders 19 different Hebrew and Greek words as “company”
What it means
a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
or (feminine) צְבָאָה; from H6633 (צָבָא);
How the KJV renders it
appointed time, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“company”
also renders synodía (G4923), óchlos (G3793), sympósion (G4849), plēthos (G4128), klisía (G2828), ʼôrᵉchâh (H736), bath (H1323), hălîykâh (H1979), hâmôwn (H1995), chebel (H2256), cheber (H2267), chay (H2416), chayil (H2428), lahăqâh (H3862), machălôqeth (H4256), qibbûwts (H6899), rôʼsh (H7218), shiphʻâh (H8229)
“war”
also renders pólemos (G4171), strateúomai (G4754), poleméō (G4170), chayil (H2428), lâchem (H3901), qôbel (H6904), qᵉrâb (H7128), qᵉrâb (H7129)
“host”
“service”
also renders diakonía (G1248), latreía (G2999), leitourgía (G3009), ʻăbîydâh (H5673), polchân (H6402)
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Where it appears
485 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 5:18 · HNcbsa
The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, able to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty that were able to go out to war.
1 Chronicles 7:4 · HNcbsc
With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles 7:11 · HNcbsa
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.
1 Chronicles 7:40 · HRd/Ncbsa
All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
1 Chronicles 11:9 · HNcbpa
David grew greater and greater, for Yahweh of Armies was with him.
1 Chronicles 12:8 · HNcbsa
Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
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