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anything wound up or coiled, by ext. a body (of soldiers), i.e. a cohort Original Word: σπεῖραTransliteration: speira Phonetic Spelling: (spi'-rah) Short Definition: cohort
of Latin origin Definition anything wound up or coiled, by ext. a body (of soldiers), i.e. a cohort NASB Word Usage cohort (7). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
Of immediate Latin origin, but ultimately a derivative of haireomai in the sense of its cognate heilisso; a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors) -- band. see GREEK heilisso see GREEK haireomai σπεῖρα (speira) − 1 Occurrence σπεῖραν (speiran) − 3 Occurrences σπείρης (speirēs) − 3 Occurrences
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