Reference: Band
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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 was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus.
Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.
You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.
The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment 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