H6633 צָבָא (tsâbâʼ) tsaw-baw'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to serve

Strong's Definition

to mass (an army or servants)

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: assemble, fight, perform, muster, wait upon, war.

TWOT Reference: 1865

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to go forth, wage war, fight, serve

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to wage war, fight, go forth to war

1a2) to serve (at sacred tent)

1b) (Hiphil) to cause to go forth, muster

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1754 G1831 G3008 G3936 G4757

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

צָבָא (tsa.va) — to serve. 1) to go forth, wage war, fight, serve 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wage war, fight, go forth to war 1a2) to serve (at sacred tent) 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to go forth, muster

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

צבא (H6633 · A6634) — צֹבֶה

verb · צָבָא

Serve | verb qal

to serve, to work = action by which humans serve a community

EXO 38:8 · EXO 38:8 · NUM 4:23 · NUM 8:24 · 1SA 2:22

Serve | verb hif

to muster, to conscript, to call to arms = causative action by which humans gather other humans together ► to serve a community

2KI 25:19 · JER 52:25

Conflict | verb qal

to fight, to wage war denominative of צָבָא: = action by which humans engage in warfare

NUM 31:7 · NUM 31:42 · ISA 29:7 · ISA 29:7 · ISA 29:8 · ISA 31:4 · ZEC 14:12

Graham S. Ogden

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[צָבָא] vb. wage war, serve Qal wage war, fight

serve at sacred tent

Hiph. muster

base

Bible Occurrences (12)

38:8

4:23 8:24 31:7 31:42

2:22

25:19

29:7 29:8 31:4

52:25

14:12

Exodus 38:8

Next he made the bronze basin and its stand... from the mirrors of the women who... served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:23

from thirty to fifty years old..., counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 8:24

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.

Numbers 31:7

Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

Numbers 31:42

From the Israelites’... half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,

1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

2 Kings 25:19

Of those still in the city, he took a court official who... had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five... royal advisors -. [He] also [took] the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men [who were] found in the city.

Isaiah 29:7

All 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,