sabaoth
IPA: sɑbˈɑɔθ
Root Word: Sabaoth
noun
- (Judaism, Christianity, biblical) An epithet of God in His role as protector of the Israelite army, usually translated (alongside YHWH or Elohim) as "Lord of Hosts".
- (religion, biblical) Hosts, armies.
- (Gnosticism) One of the seven chief archons in the Ophite cosmogony.
Examples of "sabaoth" in Sentences
- Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
- QUOTATION: Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all mens labours and peregrinations.
- He is the Lord of sabaoth, that is, the Lord of hosts -- a Hebrew word retained in the Greek, as James v. 4.
- Francis Bacon. (15611626) (continued) 1977Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all mens labours and peregrinations.
- Behold, 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.
- Behold, the hire of the labourers 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.
- It would be far more picturesque to describe a sabaoth of Lapland witches than a prayer-meeting of shouting converts, yet no friend of his race could help rejoicing to see the latter substituted for the former.
- Their greatest sin was not paying them to the poor, whose wages is their all. cries of them -- a double cry; both that of the hire abstractly, and that of the laborers hired. the Lord of sabaoth -- here only in the New Testament.
- Blair heartily joined, and he longed and prayed for the time to come when on every white-winged ship there should be gathered the servants of the Lord of sabaoth, rejoicing to call upon his holy name and give him glory for all his wondrous works.
- He complained of no personal annoyances; on the contrary, he declared he should have slept as well as ever he did in his life but for the abominable disturbances around him, of men calling to arms every half hour, when so much as a cat trotted by one of their posts — He would rather, he said, “have slept among a whole sabaoth of witches, if such creatures could be found.”