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Strong's G4756 στρατιά (stratia)

Stratia means “host” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4756 — mare (“Lord”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4756
Language Greek
Linked Usages 43
Books 18

Strong's G4756 Quick Answer

Strong's G4756 στρατία (stratia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. stratia (strat-ee'-ah) n. 1. camp-likeness, i.e. an army 2. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries It has 43 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include angel. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
stratia (strat-ee'-ah) n. 1. camp-likeness, i.e. an army 2. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries
Usage
43 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
angel

Meaning and Definition

stratia (strat-ee'-ah) n. 1. camp-likeness, i.e. an army 2. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries [feminine of a derivative of stratos (an army, from the base of G4766, as encamped)] KJV: host Root(s): G4766

Original Word
στρατία
Transliteration
stratia
Derivation
Root: στρώννυμι R1: 4766
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4756. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

army

Usage: στρατιά, -ᾶς, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for צָבָא ;] __1. = στρατός, an army, a host: of angels (3Ki.22:19, al.), Luk.2:13; of the stars of heaven (Jer.8:2, 2Ch.33:3), Act.7:42. __2. As sometimes in cl. (poët.), = στρατεία: 2Co.10:4, T (WH, RV, στρατεία).† (AS)

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How Strong's G4756 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render stratia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

angel Luke 2:13

How Strong's G4756 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 28 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4756 (στρατία) appears 41 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4756 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4756 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 2:13 KJV

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Acts 7:42 KJV

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Strong's G4756 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

28 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 14:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and he shall pursue after them; and I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his host, and all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

Exodus 14:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Egyptians pursued after them, and found them encamped by the sea; and all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharaoh, and the horsemen, and his host were before the village, over against Baal-zephon.

Exodus 14:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And lo! I will harden the heart of Pharaoh and of all the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will be glorified upon Pharaoh, and on all his host, and on his chariots and his horses.

Strong's G4756 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

13 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 5:3 Septuagint / Brenton

and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;

Judith 5:24 Septuagint / Brenton

Now therefore, lord Holofernes, we will go up, and they shall be a prey to be devoured of all thine army.

Judith 6:6 Septuagint / Brenton

And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.

Usage Excerpts

First 43 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4756.

Exodus 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and he shall pursue after them; and I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his host, and all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
Exodus 14:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Egyptians pursued after them, and found them encamped by the sea; and all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharaoh, and the horsemen, and his host were before the village, over against Baal-zephon.
Exodus 14:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And lo! I will harden the heart of Pharaoh and of all the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will be glorified upon Pharaoh, and on all his host, and on his chariots and his horses.
Numbers 10:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the armies of the children of Israel; and they set forward with their forces.
Deuteronomy 20:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.
2 Kingdoms 3:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab and all his army came, and it was reported to Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner is come to David, and David has let him go, and he has departed in peace.
2 Kingdoms 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was keeper of the records.
3 Kingdoms 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it happened, that while David was utterly destroying Edom, while Joab captain of the host was going to bury the dead, when they slew every male in Edom
3 Kingdoms 11:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead; and Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me go, and I will return to my country.
3 Kingdoms 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people heard in the army, saying, Zimri has conspired and smitten the king: and the people of Israel made Omri the captain of the host king in that day in the camp over Israel.
3 Kingdoms 21:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass as the king passed by, that he cried aloud to the king, and said, Thy servant went out to war, and, behold, a man brought another man to me, and said to me, Keep this man; and if he should by any means escape, then thy life shall go for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
3 Kingdoms 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Micaiah said, Not so, it is not I: hear the word of the Lord; it is not so. I saw the God of Israel sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven stood about him on his right hand and on his left.
1 Chronicles 12:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These were chiefs of the army of the sons of Gad, the least one commander of a hundred, and the greatest one of a thousand.
1 Chronicles 12:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they fought on the side of David against a troop, for they were all men of might; and they were commanders in the army, because of their might.
1 Chronicles 12:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these are the names of the commanders of the army, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him according to the word of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 18:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
1 Chronicles 19:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David heard, and sent Joab and all the host of mighty men.
1 Chronicles 20:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time of the going forth of kings to war, that Joab gathered the whole force of the army, and they ravaged the land of the children of Ammon; and he came and besieged Rabbah. But David abode in Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah and destroyed it.
1 Chronicles 28:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David assembled all the chief men of Israel, the chief of the judges, and all the chief men of the courses of attendance on the person of the king, and the captains of thousands and hundreds, and the treasurers, and the lords of his substance, and of all the king’s property, and of his sons, together with the eunuchs, and the mighty men, and the warriors of the army, at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And afterward Sennacherib king of the Assyrians sent his servants to Jerusalem; and he went himself against Lachish, and all his army with him, and sent to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah that was in Jerusalem, saying,
2 Chronicles 33:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he returned and built the high places, which his father Hezekiah had pulled down, and set up images to Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles 33:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
Nehemiah 9:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Jeremiah 7:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshiped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,
Jeremiah 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burned incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink offerings to strange gods.
Hosea 13:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I showed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them: and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me; and there is no Savior beside me.
Zephaniah 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and them that swear by their king;
Luke 2:13 New Testament, KJV
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Acts 7:42 New Testament, KJV
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Judith 5:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;
Judith 5:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now therefore, lord Holofernes, we will go up, and they shall be a prey to be devoured of all thine army.
Judith 6:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
Judith 7:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The next day Holofernes commanded all his army, and all his people which were come to take his part, that they should remove their camp against Bethulia, to take aforehand the ascents of the hill country, and to make war against the children of Israel.
Judith 7:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and camped in the hill country over against Dothan: and they sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east, over against Egrebeh, which is near unto Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur; and the rest of the army of the Assyrians camped in the plain, and covered the face of the whole land; and their tents and carriages were pitched to a very great multitude.
1 Maccabees 2:66 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the people.
1 Maccabees 11:70 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
insomuch as there was not one of them left, except Mattathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Chalphi, the captains of the host.
2 Maccabees 8:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And by the help of the Almighty they slew above nine thousand of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanor’s host, and so put all to flight;
2 Maccabees 12:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Maccabeus ranged his army by bands, and set them over the bands, and went against Timothy, who had about him a hundred and twenty thousand men of foot, and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.
2 Maccabees 15:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, when as all looked what should be the trial, and the enemies were already come near, and the army was set in array, and the beasts conveniently placed, and the horsemen set in wings,
3 Maccabees 5:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most.
3 Maccabees 6:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou destroyedst Pharaoh, with his host of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless hardihood and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of thy mercy upon the race of Israel, thou didst overwhelm him with his proud army.
4 Maccabees 4:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and Apollonius going up with his armed force to the seizure of the treasure—there appeared from heaven angels riding on horseback, all radiant in armor, filling them with much fear and trembling.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4756, grouped by book.

Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4756 FAQ

What does stratia (στρατιά) mean?

Stratia (Strong's G4756) is a Greek word most simply glossed "host". stratia (strat-ee'-ah) n. 1. camp-likeness, i.e. an army 2. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries

How many times is stratia (στρατιά) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 43 linked usages for Strong's G4756 across 18 books.

Where can I study stratia (στρατιά) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4756 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate stratia (στρατιά)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as angel. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4756 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 13 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4756, with linked reader references where each row is available.