This spelling represents three historically distinct English words: (1) 'Band' in the sense of that which binds
Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the barracks, and got the whole battalion together about him.
Then the soldiers took him inside the courtyard, that is, of the governor's residence, and they called the whole battalion together.
So Judas got out the garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
So the garrison and the colonel and the attendants of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,
There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.
They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult.
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