Word Study · Strong's H6633 · Hebrew
צָבָא
tsaba
tsaw-baw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: tsâbâʼ
“to mass (an army or servants)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
to mass (an army or servants)
Rendered in the KJV as
assemble, fight, perform, muster, wait upon, war.
- 14occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 7 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 11inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 14 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 11
- הַמַּצְבִּ֖א2
- הַצֹּבְאִ֖ים2
- לִצְבֹ֣א2
- הַצֹּ֣בְא֔וֹת1
- הַצֹּבְאִֽים׃1
- הַצֹּ֣בְאֹ֔ת1
- וַֽיִּצְבְּאוּ֙1
- לִצְבֹּ֥א1
- צָֽבְא֔וּ1
- צָבְא֖וּ1
- צֹבֶ֙יהָ֙1
How it is rendered · 11
- to serve2
- which wage war2
- who mustered2
- [those who] wage war against it1
- and they waged war1
- the serving [women]1
- they have waged war1
- they served1
- to wage war1
- who had gone to war1
- who were serving1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 7
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural3
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular2
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine plural2
- verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person common plural2
- Hc/Vqw3mp1
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Vqcc · 3
- HTd/Vqrmpa · 3
- HTd/Vhrmsa · 2
- HTd/Vqrfpa · 2
- HVqp3cp · 2
- Hc/Vqw3mp · 1
- HVqrmpc/Sp3fs · 1
All 14, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Exodus2 occurrences
- Exodus 38:8הַצֹּ֣בְאֹ֔תhatzoeotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine pluralNext he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.here: the serving [women]
- Exodus 38:8צָֽבְא֔וּtzaveuverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person common pluralNext he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.here: they served
Numbers4 occurrences
- Numbers 4:23לִצְבֹ֣אlitzvo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.here: to serve
- Numbers 8:24לִצְבֹ֣אlitzvo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.here: to serve
- Numbers 31:7וַֽיִּצְבְּאוּ֙vaiyitzbeuHc/Vqw3mpThen they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.here: and they waged war
- Numbers 31:42הַצֹּבְאִֽים׃hatzoeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralFrom the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,here: who had gone to war
Isaiah4 occurrences
- Isaiah 29:7הַצֹּבְאִ֖יםhatzoeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralAll the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,here: which wage war
- Isaiah 29:7צֹבֶ֙יהָ֙tzoveihaverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularAll the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,here: [those who] wage war against it
- Isaiah 29:8הַצֹּבְאִ֖יםhatzoeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralas when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.here: which wage war
- Isaiah 31:4לִצְבֹּ֥אlitzbo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.here: to wage war
Same headword in Strong's