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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G4686
Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
G4686
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
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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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