H6635

• {"n":"tsava","s":"Army, host. The plural in the title LORD of Hosts.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=tsava","r":"1 Samuel 1:3","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read hosts, or Almighty, or heavenly armies."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Host** now means someone who has you round for dinner. It used to mean an army, and the Bible is the last place most people meet the old sense."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Tsava is an army or an organised body. YHWH tsevaot is Yahweh of armies, which may mean Israel's armies, the heavenly host, or both. The Septuagint sometimes transliterates and sometimes renders it Almighty."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English hosts has drifted so far that the title reads as archaic decoration rather than as a military claim."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a title is rendered by an English word that no longer carries its meaning, look up the noun. Titles are the last place language gets updated."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Hosts is the majority rendering; the NIV reads LORD Almighty."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05e6\u05b8\u05d1\u05b8\u05d0 tsava \u00b7 H6635"}],"src":["YHWH tsevaot: 1 Samuel 1:3; Isaiah 6:3","tsava of an army: Numbers 1:3","Septuagint kurios sabaoth and pantokrator"]}