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Webster 1913 Edition


Sabaoth

Sab′a-oth

(săb′ā̍-ŏth or sȧ′bā-ŏth; 277)
,
Noun.
pl.
[Heb.
tsebā’ōth
, pl. of
tsābā'
, an army or host, fr.
tsābā'
, to go forth to war.]
1.
Armies; hosts.
[Used twice in the English Bible, in the phrase “The Lord of Sabaoth.”]
2.
Incorrectly, the Sabbath.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sabaoth

SABAOTH

,
Noun.
Armies; a word used, Rom. 9:29, James 5:4, the Lord of Sabaoth.

Definition 2024


Sabaoth

Sabaoth

English

Noun

Sabaoth (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism, Christianity, biblical) An epithet of God in His role as protector of the Israelite army, usually translated (alongside YHWH or Elohim) as "the Lord of Hosts".
  2. (religion, biblical) Hosts, armies.
  3. (Gnosticism) The name of one of the seven chief archons in the Ophite cosmogony.