Lexical Summary tagma: that which has been arranged in order, a division, rank Original Word: τάγμαTransliteration: tagma Phonetic Spelling: (tag'-mah) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: that which has been arranged in order, a division, rank Meaning: that which has been arranged in order, a division, rank Strong's Concordance division, class, groupFrom tasso; something orderly in arrangement (a troop), i.e. (figuratively) a series or succession -- order. see GREEK tasso Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5001: τάγματάγμα, ταγματος, τό (τάσσω); a. properly, that which has been arranged, thing placed in order. b. specifically, a body of soldiers, a corps: 2 Samuel 23:13; Xenophon, mem. 3, 1, 11; often in Polybius; Diodorus 17, 80; Josephus, b. j. 1, 9, 1; 3, 4, 2; (especially for the Roman 'legio' (examples in Sophocles Lexicon, under the word, 3)); hence, universally, a band, troop, class: ἕκαστος ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ τάγματι (the same words occur in Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 37, 3 [ET] and 41, 1 [ET]), 1 Corinthians 15:23, where Paul specifies several distinct bands or classes of those raised from the dead (A. V. order. Of the 'order' of the Essenes in Josephus, b. j. 2, 8, 3. 8). |
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