Reference: Band
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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 was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
And the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a troop, when David slew them of Zobah : and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with thee.
And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy hordes, and many peoples with thee.
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered unto him the whole band.
And the soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
Judas then, having received the band of soldiers , and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band ,
And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
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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