ΣΠΕΙΡΑΙΣ, σπειραις
SPEIRAIS, speirais
Sounds Like: SPEI-rais
Translations: coils, bands, companies, cohorts
From the root: ΣΠΕΙΡΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to something coiled or twisted, like a coil or a band. In a military context, it refers to a company or cohort of soldiers, which was a division of a Roman legion. It can also refer to a group or band of people in a more general sense.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4686 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 2:78
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΠΕΙΡΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΕΣΠΙΡΑ — cohort, a cohort, company, a company, band, a band
- ΕΣΠΙΡΑΤΕ — you all sowed, you all scattered, you all planted
- ΣΠΕΙΡΑ — cohort, a cohort, band, a band, company, a company
- ΣΠΕΙΡΗΔΟΝ — in companies, in cohorts, in bands, in detachments
- ΣΠΙΡΑ — cohort, a cohort, company, a company, band, a band
- ΣΠΙΡΑΙ — cohort, a cohort, company, a company, band, a band
- ΣΠΙΡΑΝ — cohort, a cohort, company, a company, band, a band
- ΣΠΙΡΑΣ — of a cohort, of a company, cohorts, companies
- ΣΠΙΡΑΤΕ — you sow, you scatter, you plant
- ΣΠΙΡΕ — cohort, a cohort, company, a company, band, a band
- ΣΠΙΡΕΤΑΙ — is sown, are sown, is being sown, are being sown
- ΣΠΙΡΕΤΕ — you sow, you scatter, you plant
- ΣΠΙΡΗΣ — of a cohort, of a company, of a band
- ΣΠΙΡΗΤΑΙ — cohorts, companies, a cohort, a company
- ΣΠΙΡΙΝ — cohort, a cohort, company, a company, band, a band
- ΣΠΙΡΟΜΕΝΟΝ — sowing, being sown, that which is sown
- ΣΠΙΡΟΝ — cohort, a cohort, band, a band, company, a company
- ΣΠΙΡΟΝΤΟΣ — (of) a cohort, (of) a company, (of) a band
- ΣΠΙΡΟΤΙ — of a cohort, of a company, of a band
- ΣΠΙΡΩΝ — of a cohort, of a company, of a military unit
- ΣΠΙΡΩΣΙΝ — cohort, a cohort, company, a company, band, a band
- ΤΩΝΣΠΕΙΡΩΝ — of the cohort, of the company, of the band, of the legion, of the troop
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