Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
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Bands
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Colossians 2:19
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
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Genesis
22 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Judges
11 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
2 Kings
74 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
33 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Ecclesiastes
11 verses
Isaiah
33 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Ezekiel
109 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Zechariah
22 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
33 verses
Colossians
11 verses
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גְּדוּד
gᵉdûwd · ghed-ood'
9 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: 2 Samuel 4:2Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 26:11
Open full H1416 profile →אַגָּף
ʼaggâph · ag-gawf'
7 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
(only plural) wings of an army, or crowds of troops
Strong's KJV usage: bands.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 12:14Strong's last: Ezekiel 39:4
Open full H102 profile →מוֹסֵר
môwçêr · mo-sare'
6 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
properly, chastisement, i.e. (by implication) a halter; figuratively, restraint
Strong's KJV usage: band, bond.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 39:5Strong's last: Jeremiah 2:20
Open full H4147 profile →δεσμόν
desmón · des-mon'
3 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner); figuratively, an impediment or disability
Strong's KJV usage: :--band, bond, chain, string.
Strong's first: Luke 8:29Strong's last: Acts 22:30
Open full G1199 profile →עֲבֹת
ʻăbôth · ab-oth'
3 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: Ezekiel 3:25Strong's last: Hosea 11:4
Open full H5688 profile →אֵסוּר
ʼêçûwr · ay-soor'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)
Strong's KJV usage: band, prison.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 15:14Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 7:26
Open full H612 profile →חָבַל
châbal · khaw-bal'
2 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, × very, withhold.
Strong's first: Zechariah 11:7Strong's last: Zechariah 11:14
Open full H2254 profile →חַרְצֻבָּה
chartsubbâh · khar-tsoob-baw'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a fetter; figuratively, a pain
Strong's KJV usage: band.
Strong's first: Psalms 73:4Strong's last: Isaiah 58:6
Open full H2784 profile →מוֹטָה
môwṭâh · mo-taw'
2 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a pole; by implication, an ox-bow; hence, a yoke (either literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: bands, heavy, staves, yoke.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:13Strong's last: Ezekiel 34:27
Open full H4133 profile →מַחֲנֶה
machăneh · makh-an-eh'
2 times translated as this KJV form216 total Strong's occurrences
an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)
Strong's KJV usage: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
Strong's first: Genesis 32:7Strong's last: Genesis 32:10
Open full H4264 profile →רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh · roshe
2 times translated as this KJV form598 total Strong's occurrences
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Strong's KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 12:23Strong's last: Job 1:17
Open full H7218 profile →ζευκτηρία
zeuktēría · dzook-tay-ree'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a fastening (tiller-rope)
Strong's KJV usage: :--band.
Strong's first: Acts 27:40Strong's last: Acts 27:40
Open full G2202 profile →σύνδεσμος
sýndesmos · soon'-des-mos
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a joint tie, i.e. ligament, (figuratively) uniting principle, control
Strong's KJV usage: :--band, bond.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Colossians 2:19Strong's last: Colossians 2:19
Open full G4886 profile →אָסַר
ʼâçar · aw-sar'
1 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
Strong's KJV usage: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 23:33Strong's last: 2 Kings 23:33
Open full H631 profile →חֶבֶל
chebel · kheh'-bel
1 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
Strong's KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Strong's first: Psalms 119:61Strong's last: Psalms 119:61
Open full H2256 profile →חָצַץ
châtsats · khaw-tsats'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); to shoot an arrow
Strong's KJV usage: archer, × bands, cut off in the midst.
Strong's first: Proverbs 30:27Strong's last: Proverbs 30:27
Open full H2686 profile →מוֹשְׁכָה
môwshᵉkâh · mo-shek-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
something drawing, i.e. (figuratively) a cord
Strong's KJV usage: band.
Strong's first: Job 38:31Strong's last: Job 38:31
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H4264
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
H4264
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
H4133
I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
H612
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
H1416
And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:
H1416
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
H1416
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
H631
And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
H1416
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
H1416
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
H1416
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
H1416
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
H1416
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
H7218
And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
H1416
Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
H7218
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
H4189
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
H4147
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
H4147
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
H2784
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
H4147
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
H2256
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
H2686
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
H612
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
H4147
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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