‖ Sabaoth
(ˈsæbeɪəʊθ, ˈsæbeɪɒθ, sæˈbeɪɒθ)
Also 6 sabbaoth.
[L. Sabaōth (Vulg.), a. Gr. σαβαώθ (LXX. and New Testament), a. Heb. {cced}⊇bāōth pl. of {cced}ābā army.]
A Hebrew word (lit. ‘armies’, ‘hosts’), retained untranslated in the English New Testament (as in the original Greek and in the Vulgate) and the Te Deum, in the designation the Lord of Sabaoth, for which in the original Old Testament passages the English versions have the rendering ‘The Lord of Hosts’.
The Gr. and L. forms being indeclinable, and therefore not easily recognizable as genitives, a frequent early form in Eng. was the Lord Sabaoth.
| a 1325 Prose Psalter, Te Deum 6 Holy! holy! holy! Lord God Sabaoth. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxviii. (1495) 364 On the saterdaye in Albis..in the gospell we ben taughte to traueylle in the vyneyerde of our lorde Sabaoth. 1535 Coverdale Rom. ix. 29 The Lorde of Sabbaoth [1611 Sabaoth]. ― Jas. v. 4 The cryes of them which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth [1611 the Lord of Sabaoth]. |
¶ Confused with sabbath. (See also Sabbath β.)
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. vii. viii. 2 But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight: O! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sabaoths sight. |