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  • He is the Lord of sabaoth, that is, the Lord of hosts -- a Hebrew word retained in the Greek, as James v. 4.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

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  • Francis Bacon. (1561–1626) (continued) 1977Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men’s labours and peregrinations.

    Quotations 1919

  • QUOTATION: Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men’s labours and peregrinations.

    Quotations 1919

  • Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

    Our Day In the Light of Prophecy William Ambrose Spicer 1908

  • Blair heartily joined, and he longed and prayed for the time to come when on every white-winged ship there should be gathered the servants of the Lord of sabaoth, rejoicing to call upon his holy name and give him glory for all his wondrous works.

    The Boy Patriot Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • Their greatest sin was not paying them to the poor, whose wages is their all. cries of them -- a double cry; both that of the hire abstractly, and that of the laborers hired. the Lord of sabaoth -- here only in the New Testament.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

    Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

  • He complained of no personal annoyances; on the contrary, he declared he should have slept as well as ever he did in his life but for the abominable disturbances around him, of men calling to arms every half hour, when so much as a cat trotted by one of their posts — He would rather, he said, “have slept among a whole sabaoth of witches, if such creatures could be found.”

    Woodstock 1855

  • It would be far more picturesque to describe a sabaoth of Lapland witches than a prayer-meeting of shouting converts, yet no friend of his race could help rejoicing to see the latter substituted for the former.

    Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851

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  • armies; hosts

    Blackie's Standard Shilling Dict.

    September 13, 2011