STRONGS G5001:
τάγμα,
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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