στρατία
army
‘army’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4756 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun στρατια centers on the idea of “army.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 3 verses. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 3 verses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 2:13. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4756 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 33%
- Acts 1 verse 33%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 33%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 67%
- Gospels 1 verse · 33%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Host 2×
- American Standard Version: Host 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Host 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Army 1×, Host 1×, The 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4756 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4756 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4756 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4756 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- an army, band of soldiers
- in the NT, the hosts of heaven
Word origin
Derived from στρωννυμι (strṓnnymi) (G4766) — to spread.
Feminine of a derivative of στρατός stratos (an army ; from the base of G4766 as encamped ); camp likeness that is an army that is (figuratively) the angels the celestial luminaries : - host.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4756 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στρατιᾶς stratiâs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 2:13 | 2 |
| στρατιᾷ stratiâ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 7:42 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4756, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
- στρατευομαι strateúomai G4754 to serve as soldier
- στρατηγος stratēgós G4755 commander
- στρατιωτης stratiṓtēs G4757 soldier
- στρατολογεω stratologéō G4758 to gather army
- στρατοπεδον stratópedon G4760 military camp
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word στρατια appears 28 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 28 verses in 11 books.
- 28
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 28
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 14:4 στρατιά
- Numbers 10:28 στρατιά
- Deuteronomy 20:9 στρατιά
- 2 Samuel 3:23 στρατιά
- 1 Kings 11:15 στρατιά
- 1 Chronicles 12:15 στρατιά
- 2 Chronicles 32:9 στρατιά
- Ezra 19:6 στρατιά
- Jeremiah 7:18 στρατιά
- Hosea 13:4 στρατιά
- Zephaniah 1:5 στρατιά
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4756) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 14:4 στρατιά I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.
- Exodus 14:9 στρατιά The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
- Exodus 14:17 στρατιά I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
- Numbers 10:28 στρατιά Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their hosts; and they set forward.
- Deuteronomy 20:9 στρατιά It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.
- 2 Samuel 3:23 στρατιά When Joab and all the host who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
- 2 Samuel 8:16 στρατιά Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
- 1 Kings 11:15 στρατιά For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
- 1 Kings 11:21 στρατιά When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
- 1 Kings 16:16 στρατιά The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also struck the king: therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
- 1 Kings 21:39 στρατιά
- 1 Kings 22:19 στρατιά [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
- 1 Chronicles 12:15 στρατιά These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
- 1 Chronicles 12:22 στρατιά For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
- 1 Chronicles 12:24 στρατιά The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
- 1 Chronicles 18:15 στρατιά Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
- 1 Chronicles 19:8 στρατιά When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
- 1 Chronicles 20:1 στρατιά It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
- 1 Chronicles 28:1 στρατιά David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 32:9 στρατιά After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 στρατιά For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:5 στρατιά He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
- Ezra 19:6 στρατιά
- Jeremiah 7:18 στρατιά The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 8:2 στρατιά and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
- Jeremiah 19:13 στρατιά and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.
- Hosea 13:4 στρατιά "Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; And you will know no god but me, And besides me there is no savior.
- Zephaniah 1:5 στρατιά those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4756) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
