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 was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,
And the girdle of the ephod shall be of the same workmanship and of the same stuff: even of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse.
and the head of the tunicle was in the midst of it as the collar of a partlet, with a band round about the collar, that it should not rend.
Which Rezon gathered men unto him and became captain over the company, when David slew them. And they went to Damascus and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
Gomer and all his hosts: the house of Thogorma out of the north quarters, and all his hosts, yea and much people with thee.
Thou shalt come up like a stormy weather to cover the land, and as it were a dark cloud: thou with all thine hosts, and a great multitude of people with thee.
Then the soldiers of the deputy took Jesus unto the common hall, and gathered unto him all the company.
And the soldiers led him away into the common hall, and called together the whole multitude,
Judas then after he had received a bond of men, and ministers of the high priests, and of the Pharisees, came thither with lanterns, and firebrands, and weapons.
Then the company, and the Captain, and the ministers of the Jews, took Jesus and bound him,
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a captain of the soldiers of Italy,
As they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the high captain of the soldiers, that all Jerusalem was moved.
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