Thesaurus
Cohort (7 Occurrences)... class. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
COHORT. ko
... detail. See ARMY; BAND.
Multi-Version Concordance
Cohort (7 Occurrences). Matthew
.../c/cohort.htm - 9kBand (150 Occurrences)
... (g) (speira): usually a "cohort" (see the Revised Version, margin) of Roman soldiers;
the tenth part of a legion, about 600 men: (Matthew 27:27 Mark 15:16 Acts ...
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Arrest (22 Occurrences)
... He granted them a cohort (Greek: speira, 400 to 600 men) from the legion then quartered
in the castle of Antonia, which adjoined and overlooked the temple-area ...
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Trial (45 Occurrences)
... He granted them a cohort (Greek: speira, 400 to 600 men) from the legion then quartered
in the castle of Antonia, which adjoined and overlooked the temple-area ...
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Julius (5 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The centurion of the Augustan cohort, or the emperor's
body-guard, in whose charge Paul was sent prisoner to Rome (Acts 27:1, 3, 43). ...
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Cornelius (10 Occurrences)
... 10:22). He was a centurion in the Italian cohort. To ... Italian volunteers.
With this cohort Cornelius was connected as centurion. 2 ...
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Army (401 Occurrences)
... David's gibborim have been compared to the Praetorian Cohort of the Roman emperors,
the Janissaries of the sultans, and the Swiss Guards of the French kings. ...
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Led (260 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV NIV). Mark 15:16 The soldiers led him away within the court, which
is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. ...
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Inside (185 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Mark 15:16 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the
Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. (See RSV). ...
/i/inside.htm - 36k
Italian (1 Occurrence)
... Italian band. The name of the Roman cohort to which Cornelius belonged (Acts
10:1), so called probably because it consisted of men recruited in Italy. ...
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Bible Concordance
Cohort (7 Occurrences)Matthew 27:27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.
(See NAS)
Mark 15:16 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
(WEB NAS)
John 18:3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
(See NAS)
John 18:12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
(See NAS)
Acts 10:1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
(See NAS RSV)
Acts 21:31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
(See NAS RSV)
Acts 27:1 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
(See NAS RSV)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
2. (n.) Any band or body of warriors.
3. (n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
COHORTko'-hort: In the Revised Version, margin of Matthew 27:27 Mark 15:16 John 18:3, 12 Acts 10:1; Acts 21:31; Acts 27:1, the translation of speira (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), "band"); the tenth part of a legion; ordinarily about 600 men. In John 18 the word seems to be used loosely of a smaller body of soldiers, a detachment, detail.
See ARMY; BAND.
Greek
4686. speira -- anything wound up or coiled, by ext. a body (of ... ... a body (of soldiers), ie a
cohort. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
speira Phonetic Spelling: (spi'-rah) Short Definition: a
cohort Definition: a
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4686.htm - 6k5010. taxis -- an arranging, order
... in His confinement" (, 904). 5010 (), as an ancient military term, describes
an ("cohort") -- descending . This term suggests a ...
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Library
The Italic Cohort Inscription (Lapis Carnuntensis)
... THE ITALIC COHORT INSCRIPTION (LAPIS CARNUNTENSIS). PROCVLVS RABILI · ·
COL PHILADEL · MIL · OPTIO · COH ·II ITALIC C · R ...
/.../ramsay/was christ born in bethlehem/the italic cohort inscription lapis.htm
Of the Mockery which He Sustained at the Hands of Pilate's Cohort ...
... Chapter IX."Of the Mockery Which He Sustained at the Hands of Pilate's Cohort, and
of the Harmony Subsisting Among the Three Evangelists Who Report that Scene ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter ix of the mockery which.htm
It was a Clear Morning and the Tenth Day Before the Kalends of ...
... Since the ides, Vergilius had been lying in camp with a cohort, near the port
of Ascalon. ... The cohort had formed in a long arc at the landing. ...
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Some Associated Questions
... [116]. The reference in Acts 10:1 to an Italic Cohort (of which Cornelius was a
centurion) has caused some difficulty and discussion in recent years. ...
/.../ramsay/was christ born in bethlehem/chapter 12 some associated questions.htm
The Festival of Games, in Honor of Augustus, were About to Begin ...
... Behind its iron bars a large lion paced up and down. Two hundred mounted men of
the cohort stood in triple rank some fifty paces from the scene. ...
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John Chapter xviii. 1-12.
... "Judas then," he adds, "having received a cohort, and officers from the chief men
and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns, and torches, and weapons ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate cxii john chapter xviii.htm
The Inscription of Aemilius Secundus (Lapis Venetus)
... ECT COHORT · AVG · I · PRaEF · COHORT · II · CLASSIC E · IDEM · IVSSV · QVIRINI ·
CENSVM · EGI ^1 0 APAMENAE · CIVITATIS · MIL LIVM · HOMIN ...
/.../ramsay/was christ born in bethlehem/the inscription of aemilius secundus.htm
Death of Jesus.
... Jesus was therefore delivered to a cohort of auxiliary troops, and all the most
hateful features of executions introduced by the cruel habits of the new ...
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Jesus Betrayed, Arrested, and Forsaken.
... The word "band" used by John to describe part of it is speira, which is the Greek
name for the cohort, a division of the Roman army which in the time of ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cxxiv jesus betrayed arrested and.htm
Gethsemane
... But during the Feast the Temple itself was guarded by an armed Cohort, consisting
of from 400 to 600 men, [5860] so as to prevent or quell any tumult among the ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xii gethsemane.htm
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