Lexicon tagma: that which has been arranged in order, spec. a division, rank Original Word: τάγμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: tagma Phonetic Spelling: (tag'-mah) Short Definition: rank, division Definition: rank, division, an ordered series. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 5001 tágma (a neuter noun) – an ordered arrangement, reflecting God's perfect wisdom in ordering all of creation (it only occurs in 1 Cor 15:23). See 5021 (tassō). 5001 /tágma ("order") extends to the principle of God's ordering to its natural results. [Compare Ps 139:16 with Eph 1:11; cf. Ps 119:89-91 with Ac 4:28, 17:26-31.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom tassóDefinitionthat which has been arranged in order, spec. a division, rank NASB Translationorder (1).
Thayer's 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).
Strong's division, class, group From tasso; something orderly in arrangement (a troop), i.e. (figuratively) a series or succession -- order. see GREEK tasso |
