Reference: Band
Hastings
This spelling represents three historically distinct English words: (1) 'Band' in the sense of that which binds
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;
"The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its workmanship, of the same material: of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen.
and the opening of the robe was at the top in the center, as the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding all around its opening, so that it would not be torn.
He gathered men to himself and became leader of a marauding band, after David slew them of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and stayed there, and reigned in Damascus.
Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops--many peoples with you.
"You will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you."
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him.
The soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort.
Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,
Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort,
While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
Smith
Band.
The "band of Roman soldiers" referred to in
and elsewhere was the tenth part of a legion. It was called a "cohort," and numbered 400 to 600 men. [See ARMY]
See Army