DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Host

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

192exact KJV occurrences 188Old Testament 4New Testament 23books containing the word 7mapped Strong's IDs 189occurrence-specific Strong's links

FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 2:1

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Romans 16:23

Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

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HEAVIEST BOOK

Numbers

27 occurrences in 27 verses.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where host appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 44 verses Exodus 76 verses Numbers 2727 verses Deuteronomy 55 verses Joshua 66 verses Judges 2015 verses 1 Samuel 1313 verses 2 Samuel 1514 verses 1 Kings 1312 verses 2 Kings 2019 verses 1 Chronicles 1817 verses 2 Chronicles 1515 verses Nehemiah 21 verses Psalms 44 verses Isaiah 65 verses Jeremiah 55 verses Ezekiel 11 verses Daniel 54 verses Obadiah 11 verses Zephaniah 11 verses Luke 22 verses Acts 11 verses Romans 11 verses

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH6635

צָבָא

tsâbâʼ · tsaw-baw'

98 times translated as this KJV form483 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)

Strong's KJV usage: appointed time, ( ) army, ( ) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).

Other KJV renderings

hosts 291 war 41 armies 22 army 7 service 5 battle 5 of hosts 3 warfare 2

Strong's first: Genesis 21:22Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:5

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HebrewH4264

מַחֲנֶה

machăneh · makh-an-eh'

57 times translated as this KJV form216 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)

Strong's KJV usage: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.

Other KJV renderings

camp 129 camps 7 company 5 tents 5 hosts 4 armies 4 bands 2 drove 1

Strong's first: Genesis 32:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 1:24

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HebrewH2428

חַיִל

chayil · khah'-yil

28 times translated as this KJV form238 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength

Strong's KJV usage: able, activity, ( ) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ( ) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).

Other KJV renderings

army 52 valour 37 forces 14 valiant 13 strength 12 riches 11 wealth 10 power 9

Strong's first: Exodus 14:4Strong's last: Psalms 136:15

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GreekG4756

στρατιά

stratiá · strat-ee'-ah

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

from the base of G4766, as encamped); camp-likeness, i.e. an army, i.e. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries

Strong's KJV usage: :--host.

Strong's first: Luke 2:13Strong's last: Acts 7:42

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HebrewH2426

חֵיל

chêyl · khale

2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment

Strong's KJV usage: army, bulwark, host, poor, rampart, trench, wall.

Other KJV renderings

rampart 2 trench 1 wall 1 poor 1 walls 1 bulwarks 1 army 1

Strong's first: 2 Kings 18:17Strong's last: Obadiah 1:20

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GreekG3581

ξένος

xénos · xen'-os

1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences

foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer

Strong's KJV usage: :--host, strange(-r).

Other KJV renderings

strangers 6 a stranger 4 strange 2 thing 1

Strong's first: Romans 16:23Strong's last: Romans 16:23

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GreekG3830

πανδοχεύς

pandocheús · pan-dokh-yoos'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

an innkeeper (warden of a caravanserai)

Strong's KJV usage: :--host.

Other KJV renderings

to the host 1

Strong's first: Luke 10:35Strong's last: Luke 10:35

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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15 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

2 Samuel 2:8

H6635

But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

2 Samuel 3:23

H6635

When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

2 Samuel 5:24

H4264

And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 8:9

H2428

When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

2 Samuel 8:16

H6635

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

2 Samuel 10:7

H6635

And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

2 Samuel 10:16

H6635

And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

2 Samuel 10:18

H6635

And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

2 Samuel 17:25

H6635

And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

2 Samuel 19:13

H6635

And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

2 Samuel 20:23

H6635

Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

2 Samuel 23:16

H4264

And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.

2 Samuel 24:2

H2428

For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

2 Samuel 24:4

H2428

Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:4

H2428

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

host

HOST, noun [Latin hostis, a stranger, an enemy, probably of the same family. See Hospitable.]

1. One who entertains another at his own house, without reward.

Homer never entertained guests or hosts with long speeches.

2. One who entertains another at his house for reward; an innkeeper; a landlord.

3. A guest; one who is entertained at the house of another. The innkeeper says of the traveler, he has a good host and the traveler says of his landlord, he has a kind host [See Guest.]

HOST, noun [Latin hostis, a stranger, an enemy.] The sense is probably transferred from a single foe to an army of foes.]

1. An army; a number of men embodied for war.

2. Any great number or multitude.

HOST, noun [Latin hostia, a victim or sacrifice, from hostis, an enemy.]

In the Romish church, the sacrifice of the mass, or the consecrated wafer, representing the body of Christ, or as the Catholics allege, transubstantiated into his own body.

HOST, verb intransitive To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Little used.]

HOST, verb transitive To give entertainment to. [Not used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

SOURCE & METHOD

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