band

Greek Noun Female

σπείρα, -ης (on this form of genitive, see M, Pr., 38, 48; Bl, § 7, 1; Mayser, 12; Deiss, BS, 186), [in LXX: Jdth.14:11, 2Ma.8:23 2Mac 12:20 2Mac 12:22 *;] 1) (= Lat. spira) anything wound or rolled up, a coil. 2) As a military term used (by Polyb. and later writers) of a body of soldiers, a maniple (third part of a cohort) or cohort (see Swete, Mk., 375; Westc, Jo, 251 f.): Mat.27:27, Mrk.15:16, Jhn.18:3, 12, Act.10:1 21:31 27:1. (AS)

band

Greek Noun Female

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 their head, [Refs 6th c.AD+]; so by Atlas, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; as a lamp-stand, ἀρτεμισίας σ. ἐπὶ τὸν λύχνον [Refs]; round cushion, [Refs 1st c.BC+] 4) a mode of dressing the hair, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] 5) σ. βόειαι thongs or straps of ox-hide to guard and arm a boxer's fist, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] 6) knot or curl in wood, [Refs 4th c.BC+] 7) a kind of cheesecake[Refs 2nd c.AD+] 8) rounded moulding in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column, torus, [Refs 1st c.BC+] 9) Geometry texts, anchor-ring, tore, produced by revolution of a circle about a line in its plane but not passing through the centre, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] II) Milit, tactical unit, in the Ptolemaic army, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; used to translate the Roman manipulus, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κατὰ σπείρας,= Latin manipulatim, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; later, cohort, [NT+1st c.AD+] II.2) ={θίασος}, religious college or guild, genitive σπείρης [Refs]; Latin spira, [Refs]

Greek

Noun Feminine

a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors); band; of immediate Latin origin, but ultimately a derivative of g138 (αἱρέομαι) in the sense of its cognate g1507 (εἱλίσσω)