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στρατιά

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
στρατιά, ᾶς, ἡ
Greek transliteration: 
stratia
Simplified transliteration: 
stratia
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4756
GK Number: 
5131
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
2
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-1a
Gloss: 
host, army (of heaven), (celestial) bodies
Definition: 
an army, host;, from the Hebrew, στρατιὰ οὐράνιος, or τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, the heavenly host, the host of heaven, the hosts of angels, Lk. 2:13; the stars, Acts 7:42*

Greek-English Concordance for στρατιά

Luke 2:13 And suddenly there was, with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host (stratias | στρατιᾶς | gen sg fem), praising God and saying,
Acts 7:42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host (stratia | στρατιᾷ | dat sg fem) of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?