Army
מַעֲרָהStrong’s H4634maarah (ma-a-rah)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “battle lines of”, “battle line” and “row”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,”
Meaning
- Army, battle-line
- (TWOT) nakedness
How it's translated
- battle lines of 6
- the battle line 5
- battle line 2
- the row 1
- in the row 1
- in the battle line 1
- from the battle line 1
- from battle lines of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 14
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 6:26And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
- 1 Samuel 4:2And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
- 1 Samuel 4:12And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
- 1 Samuel 4:16And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
- 1 Samuel 17:8And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
- 1 Samuel 17:10And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲרָה maarah · army
1) army, battle-line 2) (TWOT) nakedness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “army” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'ARMY, noun
- A collection or body of men armed for war, and organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, under proper officers.
- A great number; a vast multitude; as an army of locusts or caterpillars. Joel 2:25
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.