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. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,
And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.
and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear.
And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.
Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes--many peoples are with you.
You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.
And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.
So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,
And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the 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