Exodus 39:23
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
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Band
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Acts 27:1
And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.
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σπεῖρα
speîra · spi'-rah
7 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors)
Strong's KJV usage: :--band.
Strong's first: Matthew 27:27Strong's last: Acts 27:1
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gᵉdûwd · ghed-ood'
4 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
a crowd (especially of soldiers)
Strong's KJV usage: army, band (of men), company, troop (of robbers).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 11:24Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 12:21
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ʼĕçûwr · es-oor'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: band, imprisonment.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 4:15Strong's last: Daniel 4:23
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ʻăbôth · ab-oth'
1 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliage
Strong's KJV usage: band, cord, rope, thick bough (branch), wreathen (chain).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 39:10Strong's last: Job 39:10
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sâphâh · saw-faw'
1 times translated as this KJV form176 total Strong's occurrences
the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Strong's first: Exodus 39:23Strong's last: Exodus 39:23
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And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
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band
BAND, noun [See Bind and Bend.]
1. A fillet; a cord; a tie; a chain; any narrow ligament with which a thing is bound, tied or fastened, or by which a number of things are confined together.
2. In architecture, any flat low member of molding, broad but not deep, called also fascia, face or plinth.
3. Figuratively, any chain; any means of restraint; that which draws or confines.
4. Means of union or connection between persons; as, Hymen's bands.
5. Any thing bound round or encircling another.
6. Something worn about the neck; as the bands of clergymen.
7. A company of soldiers; the body of men united under one flag or ensign. Also, indefinitely, a troop, a body of armed men.
2 Kings 6:23.
8. A company of persons united in any common design; as a band of brothers.
9. A slip of canvas, sewed across a sail to strengthen it.
The band of pensioners in England, is a company of 120 gentlemen, who receive a yearly allowance of f100st., for attending the king on solemn occasions.
The bands of a saddle are two pieces of iron nailed upon the bows, to hold them in their proper situation.
BAND, verb transitive To bind together; to bind over with a band
2. To unite in a troop, company or confederacy.
BAND, verb intransitive To unite; to associate; to confederate for some common purpose. Acts 23:12.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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