צָבָא
tsa.va
“to serve”
Definition
to mass (an army or servants)
a primitive root;
- 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
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
H:V
Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
צָבָא appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
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.
as 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 nationswho go to battle against Mount Zion.
Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. 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.
From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
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