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 herds and camels, into two groups,
The skillfully woven girding band which is on the ephod shall be made of the same, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and fine twined linen.
And there was an opening [for the head] in the middle of the robe like the hole in a coat of mail, with a binding around it, that it should not be torn.
Rezon gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band after the slaughter by David. They went to Damascus and dwelt and made [Rezon] king in Damascus.
Gomer and all his hordes, the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north and all his hordes -- "many people are with you.
You shall ascend and come like a storm; you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hosts and many people with you.
Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the palace, and they gathered the whole battalion about Him.
Then the soldiers led Him away to the courtyard inside the palace, that is, the Praetorium, and they called the entire detachment of soldiers together.
So Judas, obtaining and taking charge of the band of soldiers and some guards (attendants) of the high priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
So the troops and their captain and the guards (attendants) of the Jews seized Jesus and bound Him,
Now [living] at Caesarea there was a man whose name was Cornelius, a centurion (captain) of what was known as the Italian Regiment,
Now while they were trying to kill him, word came to the commandant of the regular Roman garrison that the whole of Jerusalem was in a state of ferment.
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