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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.