Strong’s G4756 · Greek
στρατιά
stratiá · strat-ee'-ah
Origin feminine of a derivative of στρατός (an army;
Meaning from the base of στρώννυμι (G4766), as encamped); camp-likeness, i.e. an army, i.e. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries
In the King James Version host.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Luke 2:13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
- Acts 7:42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.