# G4686 σπεῖρα

σπεῖρα (speîra), Strong’s G4686: a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors) KJV: band. Occurs 11 times.

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*speîra* — a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors)

KJV: band

Occurs 11 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 27:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/27?v=27) — Then the governor’s soldiers took Yeshua into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.
- [Mark 15:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/15?v=16) — The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
- [John 18:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/18?v=3) — Judah then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there…
- [John 18:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/18?v=12) — So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Yeshua and bound him,
- [Acts 10:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/10?v=1) — Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
- [Acts 21:31](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/21?v=31) — As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an…
- [Acts 27:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/27?v=1) — When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion…
- [Judith 14:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/judith/14?v=11) — But as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took up his weapons…
- [2 Maccabees 8:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/8?v=23) — Moreover Eleazer also, having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, “THE HELP OF GOD”, leading the…
- [2 Maccabees 12:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/12?v=20) — Maccabaeus, arranging his own army in divisions, set these two over the bands, and marched in haste against Timotheus…