σπεῖραspeîra
GreekG46867 occurrences (KJV)
a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors)
KJV renders it: band
Where it appears
- Matt 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.
- Mark 15:16The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
- John 18:3Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
- John 18:12So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
- Acts 10:1Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
- Acts 21:31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
- Acts 27:1When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.