noun · masculine

sabaōth

GreekΣαβαώθ (sabaōth)

Strong’sG4519

hosts, armies

stem sabaōth-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

hosts2×

What it means

† σαβαώθ indecl.,

[in LXX for צְבָאוֺת, chiefly in Isaiah (in other places, the phrase יהוה צי is also rendered by κύριος παντοκράτωρ, κ. τῶν δυνάμεων; v. DB, iii, 137 f.);]

Sabaoth, i.e. hosts or armies (v. DB, l.c.): Ro 9:29 (LXX), Ja 5:4.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4519 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsab-ah-owth'

armies; sabaoth (i.e. tsebaoth), a military epithet of God

Fromof Hebrew origin ( in feminine plural);

King Jamessabaoth.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	sabaōth	sabaōth
object accusative	sabaōth	sabaōth
direct address vocative	sabaōth	sabaōth
of, belonging to genitive	sabaōth	sabaōth2×Σαβαὼθ
to, for dative	sabaōth	sabaōth

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

sabaōthstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

sabaōth“hosts”of, belonging togenitive plural2×

Romans 9:29“hosts”kai kathōs prolegatē Ēsaios; Ei mē kurios Sabaōth enkataleipata ni spermem, hōs Sodomeim an ginina kai hōs Gomorras an homoiina.It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

James 5:4“hosts”idou tos misthos toiu ergatoiu toiu amaratoiu tain chōrain vu tos afusterirētos apo vu krazatō, kai tais boais toiu therizaratoiu eis teim oueim Kuriou Sabaōth eiserchalē;Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.