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hosts

Meaning of “hosts”

1. Armies or multitudes. 2. Persons who receive or entertain guests.

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299 occurrences286 verses21 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 12:41

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Jeremiah 50:33
¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 50:33 · retained source text

¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Iudah were oppressed together, and all that tooke them captiues, held them fast, they refused to let them goe.

Jeremiah 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 50:34 · retained source text

Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is his Name, he shall throughly pleade their cause, that hee may giue rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:5
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:5 · retained source text

For Israel hath not beene forsaken, nor Iudah of his God, of the LORD of hostes; though their land was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:14
The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:14 · retained source text

The LORD of hostes hath sworne by himselfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift vp a shoute against thee.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by his soule.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vtter.

1611 marginal noteAmos.6.8

Jeremiah 51:19
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:19 · retained source text

The portion of Iacob is not like them, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hostes is his Name.

1611 marginal noteChap.10.16.

Jeremiah 51:33
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:33 · retained source text

For thus saith the LORD of hostes, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floore; it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her haruest shall come.

1611 marginal noteOr, in the time that he thresheth her.

Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:57 · retained source text

And I will make drunke her princes and her wise men, her captaines and her rulers, and her mightie men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the king, whose Name is the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:58
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:58 · retained source text

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The broad walles of Babylon shalbe vtterly broken, and her high gates shal be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour in vaine, and the folke in the fire, and they shall be weary.

1611 marginal noteOr, the walles of broad Babylon.

1611 marginal noteOr, made naked.

Hosea 12:5
Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.
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1611 witness · Hosea 12:5 · retained source text

Euen the LORD God of hosts, the LORD is his memoriall.

1611 marginal noteExo.3.15

Amos 3:13
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,
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1611 witness · Amos 3:13 · retained source text

Heare yee and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the LORD God, the God of hostes;

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