4686 - speira

Strong's Concordance

Original word: σπεῖρα
Transliteration: speira
Definition (short): cohort
Definition (full): anything wound up or coiled, a body (of soldiers), a cohort

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: of Latin origin
Definition: anything wound up or coiled, by ext. a body (of soldiers), i.e. a cohort
NASB Translation: cohort (7).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Of immediate Latin origin, but ultimately a derivative of haireomai in the sense of its cognate heilisso; a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors) -- band.

see GREEK heilisso

see GREEK haireomai

References

Strong's 4686: 7 Occurrences
KJV: Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
NASB: Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him.
KJV: And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
NASB: The soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort.
KJV: Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
NASB: Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
KJV: Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
NASB: So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,
KJV: There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
NASB: Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort,