'Companies' in the Bible

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;

I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

He divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers.

When the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him arose by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

So he took his people and divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the field; when he looked and saw the people coming out from the city, he arose against them and slew them.

Then Abimelech and the company who was with him dashed forward and stood in the entrance of the city gate; the other two companies then dashed against all who were in the field and slew them.

The next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

And the raiders came from the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,

“Come back, come back, O Shulammite;Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!” “Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,As at the dance of the two companies?

“Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.