'Soldiers' in the Bible

[After he] had arrested {him}, he also put [him] in prison, handing [him] over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him {out for public trial} after the Passover.

Now when Herod was about to bring him [out], on that [very] night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.

Now [when] day came, there was not a little commotion among the soldiers [as to] what then had become of Peter.

{He} immediately took along soldiers and centurions [and] ran down to them. And [when] they saw the military tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

And when he came to the steps, it happened that he had to be carried by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd,

And he summoned two of the centurions [and] said, "Make ready from the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, in order that they may proceed as far as Caesarea.

Therefore the soldiers, in accordance with {their orders}, took Paul [and] brought [him] to Antipatris during the night.

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these [men] remain with the ship, you cannot be saved!"

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

Now the plan of the soldiers was that they would kill the prisoners lest any escape [by] swimming away,