Gloss
company of soldiers, cohort; technically one tenth of a Roman legion: 600 fighting men
Forms of the word
Dictionary
σπεῖρα, ης, ἡ
Greek transliteration
speira
Simplified transliteration
speira
Numbers
Strong's number
4686
GK Number
5061
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
7
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-1c
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for σπεῖρα
| Matthew 27:27 | Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the entire garrison (speiran | σπεῖραν | acc sg fem) around him. |
| Mark 15:16 | And the soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the praetorium) and they called together the whole company (speiran | σπεῖραν | acc sg fem) of soldiers. |
| John 18:3 | So Judas, having procured a detachment (speiran | σπεῖραν | acc sg fem) of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. |
| John 18:12 | So the detachment (speira | σπεῖρα | nom sg fem) of soldiers, their captain, and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him. |
| Acts 10:1 | There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion from the cohort (speirēs | σπείρης | gen sg fem) that was called the Italian, |
| Acts 21:31 | And while they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the detachment (speirēs | σπείρης | gen sg fem) that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. |
| Acts 27:1 | And when it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort (speirēs | σπείρης | gen sg fem). |
