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sabaoth

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(hosts). Used usually with Jehovah—“Lord of hosts”—hosts being comprehensive, and signifying the powers of earth and heaven (Isa. 1:9⁹Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Isaiah 1:9); Rom. 9:29²⁹And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. (Romans 9:29); James 5:4⁴Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. (James 5:4)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

See HOSTS, LORD OF.

Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:

Number:

4519 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Greek:

σαβαώθ

Transliteration:

sabaoth

Phonic:

sab-ah-owth’

Meaning:

of Hebrew origin (6635 in feminine plural); armies; sabaoth (i.e. tsebaoth), a military epithet of God

KJV Usage:

sabaoth

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

hosts

Potts’ Bible Proper Names:

Lord of hosts, or of armies:―a military epithet of God, Rom. 9:29. {Exercituum Dominus}