צָבָא tsava

Hebrew word for “to serve” · Strong’s H6633 · used 14 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

1) to go forth, wage war, fight, serve;

How it is translated

Glosses given for tsava in context, with how often each is used:

• serve 2
• who mustered 2
• which wage war 2
• serving women 1
• served 1
• waged war 1
• who had gone to war 1
• who were serving 1
• those who wage war against 1
• wage war 1
• have waged war 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 31 (2), Isaiah 29 (2), Exodus 38 (1), Numbers 4 (1), Numbers 8 (1), 1 Samuel 2 (1), 2 Kings 25 (1), Isaiah 31 (1), Jeremiah 52 (1), Zechariah 14 (1)

Forms

• לצבא 3
• הצבאים 3
• צבאו 2
• המצבא 2
• הצבאת 1
• ויצבאו 1
• הצבאות 1
• צביה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tsava more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 5
• מוֹעֵד moed “meeting” 4
• אֹהֶל ohel “tent” 4
• הָמוֹן hamon “crowd” 3
• פָּקִיד paqid “overseer” 2
• סָרִיס saris “eunuch” 2
• שִׁשִּׁים shishshim “sixty” 2
• אֱנוֹשׁ enosh “human” 3
• עֲבֹדָה avodah “service” 2
• מַעַל maal “above” 2
• סָפַר saphar “to recount” 2
• פֶּתַח petach “entrance” 2

Key verses

The verses using tsava that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 38:8 — And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of…
• Numbers 4:23 — From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of…
• Numbers 8:24 — This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the…
• Numbers 31:7 — And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
• Numbers 31:42 — And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
• 1 Samuel 2:22 — Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the…
• 2 Kings 25:19 — And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city,…
• Isaiah 29:7 — And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of…
• Isaiah 29:8 — It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold,…
• Isaiah 31:4 — For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he…
• Jeremiah 52:25 — He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the…
• Zechariah 14:12 — And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.