noun · feminine
stratias
Strong’sG4756
an army, host of angels
stem strati-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
στρατιά, -ᾶς, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for צָבָא;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4756 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstrat-ee'-ah
from the base of G4766, as encamped); camp-likeness, i.e. an army, i.e. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries
Fromfeminine of a derivative of στρατός (an army;
King Jameshost.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect στρατ-ιή, ἡ,= στρατός, army, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ναυτική, πεζή, Refs 5th c.BC+; ναύφρακτος σ. Refs 5th c.BC+: absolutely, a land force, as distinguished from seamen, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 generally, host, company, band, LXX+5th c.BC+; αἱ σ. τῶν οὐρανῶνLXX; = cohors ministrorum, Refs 4th c.AD+
II sometimes ={στρατεία}, expedition, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἴτε.. ἐπὶ στρατιάν go.. on service, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | stratias | stratiais |
| object accusative | stratian | stratiain |
| direct address vocative | stratiar | stratiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | stratiau1×στρατιᾶς | stratiaiu |
| to, for dative | stratia1×στρατιᾷ | stratiai |
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
stratia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
stratiau“host”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 2:13… exaifnōs geneta sun to angelo plēthem stratiau ouraniau ainarōntoiu ton theon kai legarōntoiu;… a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:
stratia“host”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 7:42… theos kai paradōata autoin latreuarō ta stratia tou ouranou, kathōs grafotē en bibla …… over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written …