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companies

Meaning of “companies”

Groups of persons associated or gathered together; fellowships or bands.

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First occurrence: Judges 7:16

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Judges 7:16
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 7:16 · retained source text

And he diuided the three hundred men into three companies, and hee put a trumpet in euery mans hand, with empty pitchers, and lampes within the pitchers,

1611 marginal noteHebr. trumpets in the hand of all of them.

1611 marginal noteOr, firebrands: or torches.

Judges 7:20
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
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1611 witness · Judges 7:20 · retained source text

And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lampes in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withall: and they cryed, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

Judges 9:34
¶ And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
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1611 witness · Judges 9:34 · retained source text

¶ And Abimelech rose vp, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in foure companies.

Judges 9:43
And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
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1611 witness · Judges 9:43 · retained source text

And he tooke the people, and diuided them into three companies, and laide waite in the field, and looked, and behold, the people were come forth out of the citie, and he rose vp against them, and smote them.

Judges 9:44
And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.
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1611 witness · Judges 9:44 · retained source text

And Abimelech, and the companie that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entring of the gate of the citie: and the two other companies ranne vpon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.

1 Samuel 11:11
And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 11:11 · retained source text

And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three cōpanies, and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slewe the Ammonites, vntill the heat of the day: and it came to passe, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

1 Samuel 13:17
¶ And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 13:17 · retained source text

¶ And the spoilers came out of the campe of the Philistines, in three companies: one company turned vnto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, vnto the land of Shual.

2 Kings 5:2
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 5:2 · retained source text

And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captiue out of the land of Israel a litle maid, & she waited on Naamans wife.

1611 marginal noteHebr. was before.

1 Chronicles 9:18
Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
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(Who hitherto waited in the kings gate Eastward) they were Porters in the companies of the children of Leui.

1 Chronicles 28:1
AND David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
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¶ And Dauid assembled all the Princes of Israel, the Princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministred to the king by course: and the captaines ouer the thousands, and captaines ouer the hundreds, and the stewards ouer all the substance and possession of the King, and of his sonnes, with the officers, and with the mightie men, and with all the valiant men, vnto Ierusalem.

1611 marginal noteOr, cattell.

1611 marginal noteOr, Eunuches.

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