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Used in the book of Romans in the New Testament of the Bible `Lord of Sabaoth'
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sabaoth \Sab"a*oth\ (s[a^]b"[asl]*[o^]th or s[.a]"b[=a]*[o^]th; 277), n. pl. [Heb. tseb[=a]'[=o]th, pl. of ts[=a]b[=a]', an army or host, fr. ts[=a]b[=a]', to go forth to war.] Armies; hosts. Note: [Used twice in the English Bible, in the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Late Latin, from Greek Sabaoth , rendering Hebrew tzebhaoth "hosts, armies," plural of tzabha "army," from tzaba "he waged war, he served." A word translated in English in the Old Testament by the phrase "the Lord of Hosts," but originally ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context religion Bible English) hosts; army 2 (context gnosticism English) An archon, one of the seven chief archons in the Ophite cosmogony.
Usage examples of sabaoth.
Deploying to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry Bonafide Sabaoth, sabred the Saracen gunners to a man.
This was not a wine press, that was not land and vineyard, but Paradise, with old Jehovah Sabaoth sitting on the platform holding a long stick and a penknife and marking his exact obligation to each: how many hampers of grapes each had brought and how many jugs of wine, day after tomorrow when they died, he would offer them—how many jugs of wine, how many cauldrons of food, how many women!
Anti-Semitic, the Archontics identify the Devil with Sabaoth, the god of the Jews, who lives in the seventh heaven.