1. cohort, military band — A Roman military unit (σπεῖρα), typically a cohort of about 600 soldiers, used in NT contexts describing the soldiers involved in Jesus's arrest and trial and those under various centurions. All cases (nominative, accusative, genitive) refer to the same military unit concept. Multilingual evidence is uniform: Arabic كَتِيبَة (katība, 'battalion/brigade'), Korean 부대/군대/대대 ('unit/army/battalion'), Swahili kikosi ('detachment/squad'), Spanish cohorte, Hindi पलटन (palṭan, 'platoon'). The genitive 'of the cohort' is merely possessive inflection, not a separate sense. 7×
AR["الْكَتِيبَةِ","كَتِيبَةٍ","كَتِيبَةَ","كَتِيبَةُ","كَتِيبَةِ"]·ben["দলকে","দলের","বাহিনী","সৈন্যদল,","সৈন্যদলকে,"]·DE["Schar","σπείρης","σπεῖραν"]·EN["cohort","of-a-cohort"]·FR["cohorte"]·heb["גְּדוּד","הַגְּדוּד","מִגְּדוּד"]·HI["पलटन","पलटन-की","पल्टनकी"]·ID["pasukan"]·IT["coorte","speira","speiran"]·jav["pasukan","pasukan,","pasukan;"]·KO["군대-를","군대-와","군대를","대대-에서","대대-의","대대의","부대-를"]·PT["coorte","coorte,","de-coorte"]·RU["когорта,","когорту","когорту,","когорты","полка,"]·ES["cohorte","de-la-cohorte"]·SW["kikosi","wa-kikosi"]·TR["alayı","tabur","taburu","taburun","taburundan"]·urd["فوج","پلٹن"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
σπεῖρα, ἡ, anything twisted or wound, ποιεῖν τι οἷον σπεῖραν twist it into a ball, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 plural, coils or spires of a serpent, Refs 5th c.BC+; πολύπλοκοι σ. Refs 5th c.BC+: so in singular, Refs 4th c.BC+ __3 rope, cord, Refs 5th c.BC+; σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις with the net's meshy folds, Refs 5th c.BC+; ship's cable, Refs 1st c.AD+; padded circle used by women carrying weights on…