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 that were with him, and the sheep and the cows and the camels, into two bands
And the special girdle of the ephod, which shall be over it, shall be of its same workmanship, of the same materials: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet and fine twined linen.
with its collar in the midst of the robe, as the collar of a habergeon, with a band round about the collar that it should not rend.
And he gathered men unto him and became captain over a band, when David slew those of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.
Gomer and all his companies; the house of Togarmah that dwells to the sides of the north and all his companies and many peoples with thee.
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm; thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy companies and many peoples with thee.
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
And the soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they call together the whole band.
Judas then, taking a company of soldiers and ministers of the high priests and of the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Then the company of soldiers and the tribune and the ministers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the company called the Italian,
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the tribunal of the company that all Jerusalem was in an uproar
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