Band
אֲגַףStrong’s H0102aggaph (ag-gaph)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aggaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “troops his”, “troops its” and “troops your”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.”
Meaning
- Wing (of an army), band, army, hordes
How it's translated
- troops his 3
- troops its 2
- troops your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 17:21And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 38:6Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
- Ezekiel 38:9Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
- Ezekiel 38:22And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
- Ezekiel 39:4Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲגַף aggaph · band
wing (of an army), band, army, hordes
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “band” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAND, noun
[See Bind and Bend.]
- A fillet; a cord; a tie; a chain; any narrow ligament with which a thing is bound, tied or fastened, or by which a number of things are confined together.
- In architecture, any flat low member of molding, broad but not deep, called also fascia, face or plinth.
- Figuratively, any chain; any means of restraint; that which draws or confines.
- Means of union or connection between persons; as, Hymen's bands.
All definitions and other forms of “band”
- Any thing bound round or encircling another.
- Something worn about the neck; as the bands of clergymen.
- A company of soldiers; the body of men united under one flag or ensign.
- A company of persons united in any common design; as a band of brothers.
- A slip of canvas, sewed across a sail to strengthen it.
BAND, verb transitive
To bind together; to bind over with a band
- To unite in a troop, company or confederacy.
BAND, verb intransitive
To unite; to associate; to confederate for some common purpose.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.