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 with him, and the flocks and herds, and the camels, into two bands.
And the embroidered girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work of it: of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen.
And the opening in the middle of the robe was like the opening of a corselet, with a band around the opening, so that it might not tear.
And he gathered men to him, and became head over a band when David killed them. And they went to Damascus and lived in it, and reigned in Damascus.
Gomer and all his bands; the house of Togarmah from the recesses of the north, and all his bands; and many peoples with you.
And you shall go up, coming like a storm. You shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many peoples with you.
Then taking Jesus into the praetorium, the soldiers of the governor gathered the cohort against Him.
And the soldiers led Him away inside the court, which is the praetorium. And they called together all the cohort.
Then Judas, having received a band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Then the band, and the chiliarch, and under-officers of the Jews together seized Jesus and bound Him.
And a certain man named Cornelius was in Caesarea, a centurion of the Italian cohort,
And as they were seeking to kill him, the news came to the chiliarch of the cohort, 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