Word study · Greek
legiōn
legion
Say it: leg-ee-OWN (approximate)
λεγιών
What it means
A Latin loan word. A Roman legion was a unit of several thousand soldiers (often about 5,000 to 6,000). The spirits use it to say there are many of them (5:9, 5:15). Mark's readers lived under Roman rule, so the name would have carried the sound of an occupying force.
Range of meaning
- Military unitA Roman legion.
- A great numberUsed loosely for "a vast host."
In Mark
- Chapter 5
The name the spirits give (5:9, 5:15).
Every verse (2)
Verses where G3003 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources