Mark 5:9
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
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Legion
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Luke 8:30
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
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λεγεών
legeṓn · leg-eh-ohn'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a "legion", i.e. Roman regiment (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--legion.
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Strong's first: Mark 5:9Strong's last: Luke 8:30
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And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
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And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
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And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
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legion
LE'GION, noun [Latin legio, from lego, to collect.]
1. In Roman antiquity, a body of infantry consisting of different numbers of men at different periods, from three to five thousand. Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into ten companies, and each company into two centuries.
2. A military force; military bands.
3. A great number.
Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach.
My name is legion for we are many. Mark 5:9.
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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