Definition

a camping-ground, i.e. (by implication) a body of troops

Etymology

from the base of G4756 (στρατιά) and the same as G3977 (πεδινός);

Where the KJV renders it

• army

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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