Troops
στράτευμαStrong’s G4753strateuma
Appears in 7 verses of the New Testament
In short
Strateuma is the Greek word usually translated “armies”, “troop” and “troops”. It appears in 7 verses of the New Testament.
“But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.”
Meaning
Usually translated “armies”, “troop” and “troops”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- armies 4
- troop 2
- troops 1
- army 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 3
- Acts 2
- Matthew 1
- Luke 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 23:11And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
- Acts 23:10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
- Acts 23:27This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
- Revelation 9:16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
- Revelation 19:14And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
- Revelation 19:19And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Greek dictionary
στράτευμα strateuma · troops
στράτευμα, -τος, τό (στρατεύω), [in LXX: 1Ma.9:34, 2Ma.5:24 2Mac 8:21 2Mac 12:38 2Mac 13:13; pl., Jdth.11:8, 4Ma.5:1 * ;] 1. = στρατεία (Hdt., al.). 2. an army, a host: pl., Mat.22:7, Rev.9:16 19:14, 19; = soldiers, company of soldiers, Act.23:10, 27; pl., Luk.23:11.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “troop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TROOP, noun
- A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. Genesis 49:192 Samuel 23:11
- A body of soldiers.
- troop in the singular, a small body or company of cavalry, light horse or dragoons, commanded by a captain.
- A company of stage-players.
All definitions and other forms of “troop”
TROOP, verb intransitive
To collect in numbers.
- To march in a body.
- To march in haste or in company.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.