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 in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;
And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be of the same work and the same material, of gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work.
With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.
He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and became king there.
Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you.
And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.
Then the ruler's armed men took Jesus into the open square, and got all their band together.
And the men of the army took him away into the square in front of the building which is the Praetorium, and they got together all the band.
So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms.
Then the band and the chief captain and the police took Jesus and put cords round him.
Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, the captain of the Italian band of the army;
And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control.
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