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σπεῖρα

Sounds like spi'•rah

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

Derived of immediate Latin origin, but ultimately a derivative of #00138 (αἱρέομαι / hairéomai) in the sense of its cognate #01507 (εἱλίσσω / heilíssō).

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The text is from Dictionary of Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D. (1890). Text out of copyright.

The digitized text we’ve used was from Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML with real Greek by Dr. Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (ulrikp.org, Scripture Systems ApS). Text licensed under Creative Commons CC0.

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This dictionary is part of the 2001 Translation Project.