צָבָא
tsaba
army
Strong's H6635NounHebrewTWOT 1865b

צָבָא (tsaba) is a Hebrew noun meaning army. It appears 487 times in 27 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6635).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1865b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1865b)army, war, warfare; host; service; mass, campaign, hardship, worship; appointed time, battle, company, soldiers, waiting upon
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

צָבָא noun, masculine: army, war, warfare

Strong's H6635 צָבָא: a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV:appointed time, army, battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1865: צָבָא ṣābāʾ — wage war, serve; fight; muster; mass; assemble, perform, wait upon, war

See it in Scripture

Genesis 2:1Exodus 6:26Numbers 1:3

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