Strong G4686σπεῖρα
band
- Transliteration
- speira
- Pronunciation
- spi'-rah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Detailed definition
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)
(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)
In the Bible
Strong G4686 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- band7
First verses
- Matthew 27:27Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
- Mark 15:16And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Pretorium; and they call together the whole band.
- John 18:3Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
- John 18:12Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
- Acts 10:1There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
- Acts 21:31And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
- Acts 27:1And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
σπεῖρα, ἡ,
anything twisted or wound, ποιεῖν τι οἷον σπεῖραν twist it into a ball, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.33.)]
2 plural, coils or spires of a serpent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 535 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 500)]; πολύπλοκοι σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 481, compare “Ion” 1164)]: so in singular, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 156, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.151, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 47, 89, etc.)]
3 rope, cord, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.21, _falsa lectio_ in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Steril.” 235)]; σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις with the net's meshy folds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 346 (Lyric poetry))]; ship's cable, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.507b)]; padded circle used by women carrying weights on their head, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 12.55)]; so by Atlas, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 2.5.11)]; as a lamp-stand, ἀρτεμισίας σ. ἐπὶ τὸν λύχνον [Refs (“PMag.Lond.” 121.601 (compare σπειρίον 111))]; round cushion, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 5(1).1390.24 (Andania, 1st c.BC).)]
4 a mode of dressing the hair, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.31, 4.149.)]
5 σ. βόειαι thongs or straps of ox-hide to guard and arm a boxer's fist, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.80.)]
6 knot or curl in wood, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.2.3, 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 16.198.)]
7 a kind of cheesecake[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ((+others σπῖρα), Chrysipp. Tyan. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 14.647d.)]
8 rounded moulding in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column, torus, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.372.64, “Sardis” 7(1) No.181 (1st c.AD), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2713-14 (from Labranda), 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.121, 1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 3.5.3.)]
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+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “*Deff.” 97, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in primum Euclidis librum commentarius” p.119 F.)]
II Milit., tactical unit, in the Ptolemaic army, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“BGU” 1806.4 (1st c.BC))]; used to translate the Roman manipulus, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.23.1, +others, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 12.3.18, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 17)]; κατὰ σπείρας,= Latin manipulatim, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.115.12)]; later, cohort, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Acts.10.1, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 3.4.2, “IGRom.” 1.10 (from Massilia), 1373 (from Egypt), +others, “OGI” 208.2 (Nubia, 2nd c.AD), +others (_genitive_ in this sense always σπείρης, NT.Act.[same place], “POxy.” 477.3 (2nd c.AD), “BGU” 73 (2nd c.AD), “OGI” [same place], etc.).)]
II.2 ={θίασος}, religious college or guild, genitive σπείρης [Refs (“IG” 14.925 (Portus Trajani); _dative_ σπείρῃ [prev. work]977 (from Rome), “Inscription Perg.” 319,320; _nominative_ σπεῖρα “AEM” 14.28 (from Roumania))]; Latin spira, [Refs (“CIL” 6.261 (from Rome), +others (compare σπειράρχης).)]
anything twisted or wound, ποιεῖν τι οἷον σπεῖραν twist it into a ball, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.33.)]
2 plural, coils or spires of a serpent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 535 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 500)]; πολύπλοκοι σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 481, compare “Ion” 1164)]: so in singular, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 156, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.151, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 47, 89, etc.)]
3 rope, cord, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.21, _falsa lectio_ in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Steril.” 235)]; σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις with the net's meshy folds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 346 (Lyric poetry))]; ship's cable, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.507b)]; padded circle used by women carrying weights on their head, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 12.55)]; so by Atlas, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 2.5.11)]; as a lamp-stand, ἀρτεμισίας σ. ἐπὶ τὸν λύχνον [Refs (“PMag.Lond.” 121.601 (compare σπειρίον 111))]; round cushion, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 5(1).1390.24 (Andania, 1st c.BC).)]
4 a mode of dressing the hair, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.31, 4.149.)]
5 σ. βόειαι thongs or straps of ox-hide to guard and arm a boxer's fist, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.80.)]
6 knot or curl in wood, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.2.3, 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 16.198.)]
7 a kind of cheesecake[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ((+others σπῖρα), Chrysipp. Tyan. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 14.647d.)]
8 rounded moulding in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column, torus, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.372.64, “Sardis” 7(1) No.181 (1st c.AD), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2713-14 (from Labranda), 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.121, 1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 3.5.3.)]
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+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “*Deff.” 97, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in primum Euclidis librum commentarius” p.119 F.)]
II Milit., tactical unit, in the Ptolemaic army, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“BGU” 1806.4 (1st c.BC))]; used to translate the Roman manipulus, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.23.1, +others, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 12.3.18, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 17)]; κατὰ σπείρας,= Latin manipulatim, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.115.12)]; later, cohort, [NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.Acts.10.1, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 3.4.2, “IGRom.” 1.10 (from Massilia), 1373 (from Egypt), +others, “OGI” 208.2 (Nubia, 2nd c.AD), +others (_genitive_ in this sense always σπείρης, NT.Act.[same place], “POxy.” 477.3 (2nd c.AD), “BGU” 73 (2nd c.AD), “OGI” [same place], etc.).)]
II.2 ={θίασος}, religious college or guild, genitive σπείρης [Refs (“IG” 14.925 (Portus Trajani); _dative_ σπείρῃ [prev. work]977 (from Rome), “Inscription Perg.” 319,320; _nominative_ σπεῖρα “AEM” 14.28 (from Roumania))]; Latin spira, [Refs (“CIL” 6.261 (from Rome), +others (compare σπειράρχης).)]