Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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Host
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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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27 occurrences in 27 verses.
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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
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.
צָבָא
tsâbâʼ · tsaw-baw'
98 times translated as this KJV form483 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Strong's first: Genesis 21:22Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:5
Open full H6635 profile →מַחֲנֶה
machăneh · makh-an-eh'
57 times translated as this KJV form216 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 32:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 1:24
Open full H4264 profile →חַיִל
chayil · khah'-yil
28 times translated as this KJV form238 total Strong's occurrences
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
Strong's first: Exodus 14:4Strong's last: Psalms 136:15
Open full H2428 profile →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
Open full G4756 profile →חֵיל
chêyl · khale
2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment
Strong's KJV usage: army, bulwark, host, poor, rampart, trench, wall.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 18:17Strong's last: Obadiah 1:20
Open full H2426 profile →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
Strong's first: Romans 16:23Strong's last: Romans 16:23
Open full G3581 profile →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
Strong's first: Luke 10:35Strong's last: Luke 10:35
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H6635
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
H6635
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
H6635
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
H6635
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
H6635
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
H4264
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
H6635
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
H6635
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
H6635
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
H6635
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
H6635
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
H2426
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
H6635
And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
G4756
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
G3830
And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
G4756
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
G3581
Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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.
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