29 occurrences

'Army' in the Bible

Then David said to him, "{How did things go}? Please tell me." He answered, "{When} the army fled from the battle, and many of the people fell; also, Saul and Jonathan his son died."

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingWhat Manner?

But Abner the son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over [to] Mahanaim.

Verse ConceptsRank

When Joab and all the army that [was] with him came, they told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he sent him away, and he left in peace."

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

{And it shall be} that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then pay attention, for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike down the army of [the] Philistines."

Verse ConceptsGod Going BeforeHearing ThingsMoving Onmovementfootprintsarmy

When Toi, the king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer,

Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] secretary.

Verse ConceptsScribesRecorders

When David heard, he sent Joab and all the army of mighty warriors.

Verse ConceptsWarriorsEarthly Armies

The rest of the army he placed into the hand of his brother Abishai, who {arranged them in battle lines} to meet the {Ammonites}.

Then Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who [were] beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam. Now Shobach, the commander of the army of Hadadezer, {was at their head}.

Verse ConceptsTravelBeyond The Euphrates

And Aram fled before Israel, and David killed from [the] Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen. He struck down Shobach, the commander of his army, and he died there.

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredForty Thousand And UpPeoples Who Fled

Uriah came to him, and David asked {how Joab and the army fared and how the war was going}.

The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some from the army from the servants of David fell; Uriah the Hittite also died.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named Individuals

So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it."

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.

Verse ConceptsCapturing Cities

He also brought out the people who [were] in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the {Ammonites}, and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsAxesIronToolsCaptivesClay, UsesHorrors Of WarSawsFurnacesIron ObjectsForced Labour

Absalom had appointed Amasa in place of Joab over the army. Now Amasa [was] the son of a man whose name [was] Ithra the Israelite, {who had married} Abigail the daughter of Nahash the sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenNamed Sisters

The army went out to the field to meet Israel, and the battle was [fought] in the forest of Ephraim.

The army of Israel [was] defeated there before the servants of David, and the defeat there was great on that day: twenty thousand.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpKilling IsraelitesDefeat Of God's People

The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and {the forest devoured more among the army than} the sword [did] on that day.

Verse ConceptsBattle

so the victory turned to mourning on that day for all the army, because they had heard that day, "The king is grieving over his son."

Verse ConceptsSorrowPeople Mourning CatastropheDeath

The army {came secretly} into the city on that day because the army was disgraced when they fled in the battle,

Verse ConceptsHiding From People

So the king got up and he sat in the gate, and they told all the army, "Look, the king [is] sitting in the gate." Then all the army came before the king; [whereas] all of Israel had fled, each to his tent.

Verse ConceptsSittingAssembling IsraelSitting In The GatewayPeople Sitting DownIsrael Fleeing

To Amasa you shall say: '[Are] you not my bones and my flesh? {May God punish me} if you [are] not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.'"

Verse ConceptsTreasonExchanging Of LeadersSame Bone And Flesh

And they came and besieged him in Abel Beth Maacah. They threw up a siege ramp against the city, and they stood against the ramparts. And all the army who [were] with Joab [were] battering to cause the wall to fall.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsSiegesWallsSiege MoundsPeople Attacking Their Own

Now Joab [was] over all the army of Israel and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Carites and over the Pelethites.

He stood up and struck down the Philistines until his hand grew tired and his hand clung to the sword, and Yahweh brought about a great victory on that day. Then the army returned back to him only for stripping [the dead].

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFatigueSwordsThings Stuck TogetherPeople Stripping PeopleTired In Activity

Next to him [was] Shamma, the son of Agee the Hararite. When [the] Philistines assembled at Lehi, a plot of the field was there filled with lentils, and the army fled there from the presence of [the] Philistines.

Verse ConceptsIsrael Fleeing

The king said to Joab, the commander of the army who [was] with him: "Please go about through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people that I may know the number of the people."

Verse ConceptsCensus

But the word of the king prevailed over Joab and over the commanders of the army, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out from before the king to count the people of Israel.

Verse ConceptsStubbornnessSelf WillCensus

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּדוּד 
G@duwd 
Usage: 33

חל חיל 
Cheyl 
Usage: 8

חיל 
Chayil 
Usage: 243

חיל 
Chayil (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

חלץ 
Chalats 
Usage: 44

מערכה 
Ma`arakah 
Usage: 19

מצּבה מצּבה 
Matstsabah 
Usage: 2

צבאה צבא 
Tsaba' 
Usage: 483

παρεμβολή 
Parembole 
Usage: 10

στράτευμα 
Strateuma 
army , man of war , soldier
Usage: 7

στρατόπεδον 
Stratopedon 
Usage: 0