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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - λεγεών

λεγεών

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Transliteration: legeṓn

Pronunciation: leg-eh-ohn'

Definition: legion


- Original: λεγεών

- Transliteration: Legeon

- Phonetic: leg-eh-ohn'

- Definition:

1. a legion, a body of soldiers whose number differed at different times, and in the time of Augustus seems to have consisted of 6826 men (i.e. 6100 foot soldiers, and 726 horsemen)

- Origin: of Latin origin

- TDNT entry: 05:08,5

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Of Latin origin; a legion that is Roman regiment (figuratively): - legion.


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