στρατιά
stratia · army, host
Greek word · Strong’s number G4756 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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stratia (στρατιά) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “army, host”.
The heavenly host.
How to say it
stra·ti·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A great host of heavenly beings, angels or stars.
From Abbott-Smith (1922)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 2:13
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God and saying,
- Acts 7:42
But God turned away and handed them over to worship the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer me slaughtered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?