speira: anything wound up or coiled, by ext. a body (of soldiers), i.e. a cohort Original Word: σπεῖρα, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: speira
Phonetic Spelling: (spi'-rah)
Short Definition: a cohort
Definition: a cohort, the tenth part of a legion; a military guard.
Word Origin
of Latin origin
Definition
anything wound up or coiled, by ext. a body (of soldiers), i.e. a cohort
NASB Word Usage
cohort (7).NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
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All rights reserved Lockman.org cohortOf immediate Latin origin, but ultimately a derivative of haireomai in the sense of its cognate heilisso; a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors) -- band. see GREEK heilisso see GREEK haireomai
Σπανίαν — 2 Occ.
σπαράσσει — 1 Occ.
σπαράξαν — 1 Occ.
σπαράξας — 1 Occ.
ἐσπαργανωμένον — 1 Occ.
ἐσπαργάνωσεν — 1 Occ.
ἐσπαταλήσατε — 1 Occ.
σπαταλῶσα — 1 Occ.
σπασάμενος — 2 Occ.
σπεῖρα — 1 Occ.
σπείρης — 3 Occ.
ἐπέσπειρεν — 1 Occ.
ἐσπαρμένον — 2 Occ.
ἔσπειρα — 2 Occ.
ἐσπείραμεν — 1 Occ.
ἔσπειρας — 3 Occ.
ἔσπειρεν — 1 Occ.
σπαρῇ — 2 Occ.
σπαρείς — 4 Occ.
σπαρέντες — 1 Occ.
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Strong's Greek 4686
7 Occurrences
σπεῖρα — 1 Occ.
σπεῖραν — 3 Occ.
σπείρης — 3 Occ.
Matthew 27:27 N-AFS
BIB: ὅλην τὴν σπεῖραν
NAS: the whole [Roman] cohort around
KJV: him the whole band [of soldiers].
INT: all the battalionMark 15:16 N-AFS
BIB: ὅλην τὴν σπεῖραν
NAS: the whole [Roman] cohort.
KJV: they call together the whole band.
INT: all the battalion John 18:3 N-AFS
BIB: λαβὼν τὴν σπεῖραν καὶ ἐκ
NAS: having received the [Roman] cohort and officers
KJV: having received a band [of men] and
INT: having procured the band and [some] from John 18:12 N-NFS
BIB: Ἡ οὖν σπεῖρα καὶ ὁ
NAS: So the [Roman] cohort and the commander
KJV: Then the band and the captain
INT: then [the] band and the Acts 10:1 N-GFS
BIB: ἑκατοντάρχης ἐκ σπείρης τῆς καλουμένης
NAS: of what was called the Italian cohort,
KJV: of the band called
INT: a centurion of a cohort which is called Acts 21:31 N-GFS
BIB: χιλιάρχῳ τῆς σπείρης ὅτι ὅλη
NAS: up to the commander of the [Roman] cohort that all
KJV: unto the chief captain of the band, that
INT: chief captain of the band that all Acts 27:1 N-GFS
BIB: ὀνόματι Ἰουλίῳ σπείρης Σεβαστῆς
NAS: of the Augustan cohort named
KJV: a centurion of Augustus' band.
INT: by name Julius of the cohort of Augustus 7 Occurrences
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