Reference: Band
Hastings
This spelling represents three historically distinct English words: (1) 'Band' in the sense of that which binds
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And Jacob will be greatly afraid and it will press upon him: and he will divide the people which were with him, and the sheep and the oxen, and the camels, into two camps.
And the girdle of its ephod, which is upon it, shall be according to the making of it from it; gold, cerulean purple, red purple, double scarlet, and twisted byssus.
And the mouth of the robe in the midst of it as the mouth of a coat of mail, a lip to its mouth round about, it shall not rend.
And he will gather to himself men, and he will be chief of a troop in David's killing them; and they will go to Damascus and dwell in it and reign in Damascus.
Gomer and all his hosts; the house of Togarmah of the thighs of the north, and all his hosts: many peoples with thee.
Ascending, thou shalt come as a storm, as a cloud to cover the earth shalt thou be and all thy hosts, and many peoples with thee.
Then the soldiers of the leader, having taken Jesus to the Pretorium, gathered together the whole band against him.
And the soldiers led him away within the hall, which is the Pretorium; and they call together the whole band.
Then Judas, having taken a band and attendants from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lights and torches and weapons.
Then the band and captain of a thousand and attendants of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
And a certain man was in Cesarea by name Cornelius, a centurion of the band called Italian,
And seeking to kill him, a rumor went up to the captain of a thousand of the band, that the whole of Jerusalem had been embroiled.
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