σπεῖρα
speira · cohort
Greek word · Strong’s number G4686 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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speira (σπεῖρα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “cohort”.
A body of about six hundred soldiers.
How to say it
spei·ra
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A Roman unit of hundreds of soldiers.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- Matthew 27:27
Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the praetorium, gathered the whole cohort around him.
- Mark 15:16
And the soldiers led him away inside the courtyard, which is the praetorium, and they call together the whole cohort.
- John 18:3
So Judas, having taken the cohort and officers from the high priests and from the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
- John 18:12
So the cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.
- Acts 10:1
Now there was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort called the Italian,
- Acts 21:31
And while they were seeking to kill him, a report went up to the commander of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
- Acts 27:1
And when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort.