Cohort

ko'-hort: In the Revised Version, margin of Matt 27:27; Mark 15:16; John 18:3; John 18:12; Acts 10:1; Acts 21:31; Acts 27:1, the translation of speira (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), "band"); the tenth part of a legion; ordinarily about 600 men. In John 18 the word seems to be used loosely of a smaller body of soldiers, a detachment, detail.

See Army; Band.