Greek noun (feminine) · G4686
σπεῖρα
speiraspi'-rah
(= Lat. spira) anything wound or rolled up, a coil.; As a military term used (by Polyb. and later writers) of a body of soldiers, a m
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: speîra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4686is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4686
a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors)
The King James renders it: band.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
speira is rendered "(= Lat. spira) anything wound or rolled up, a coil.; As a military term used (by Polyb. and later writers) of a body of soldiers, a m". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "(= Lat. spira) anything wound or rolled up, a coil.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.
Matthew 27:27σπεῖραν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: (= Lat. spira) anything wound or rolled up, a coil., and As a military term used (by Polyb. and later writers) of a body of soldiers, a m.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| (= Lat. spira) anything wound or rolled up, a coil. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company… |
| 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... | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σπείρω | speiro | to sow | Uses52 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σπεῖραν3
- σπείρης3
- σπεῖρα1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
one use
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.
- σπεῖρανspeirannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: cohort
Mark
one use
Then the soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called the whole company together.
- σπεῖρανspeirannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: cohort
John
two uses
So Judas brought a band of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. They arrived at the garden carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.
- σπεῖρανspeirannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: cohort
Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.
- σπεῖραspeiranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: the cohort
Acts
three uses
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
- σπείρηςspeiresnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Cohort
While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil.
- σπείρηςspeiresnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: cohort
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
- σπείρηςspeiresnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of the cohort
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.