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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #5438 - φυλακή

Transliteration

phylakḗ

Phonetics

foo-lak-ay'

Origin

from (G5442)

Parts of Speech

Noun Feminine

TDNT

9:241,1280

Definition

Thayer's

guard, watch
1. a watching, keeping watch
  1. to keep watch
2. persons keeping watch, a guard, sentinels
3. of the place where captives are kept, a prison
4. of the time (of night) during which guard was kept, a watch i.e. a period of time during which part of the guard was on duty, and at the end of which others relieved them. As the earlier Greeks divided the night commonly into three parts, so, previous to the exile, the Israelites also had three watches in a night; subsequently, however, after they became subject to the Romans, they adopted the Roman custom of dividing the night into four watches

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Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 615 ‑ אָסִיר (aw‑sere'); 821 ‑ אַשְׁמֹרֶת (ash‑moo‑raw', ash‑moo‑raw', ash‑mo'‑reth); 3608 ‑ כֶּלֶא (keh'‑leh); 4115 ‑ מַהְפֶּכֶת (mah‑peh'‑keth); 4307 ‑ מַטָּרָא (mat‑taw‑raw', mat‑taw‑raw'); 4525 ‑ מַסְגֵּר (mas‑gare'); 4685 ‑ מְצֹדָה (maw‑tsode', mets‑o‑daw', mets‑o‑daw'); 4931 ‑ מִשְׁמֶרֶת (mish‑meh'‑reth); 5341 ‑ נָצַר (naw‑tsar');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (47)

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

2 Corinthians

Hebrews

1 Peter

Revelation

NAS (47)

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

2 Corinthians

Hebrews

1 Peter

Revelation

HCS (47)

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

2 Corinthians

Hebrews

1 Peter

Revelation

BSB (47)

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

2 Corinthians

Hebrews

1 Peter

Revelation

ESV (44)

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

2 Corinthians

Hebrews

1 Peter

Revelation

WEB (49)

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

2 Corinthians

Hebrews

1 Peter

Revelation

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

φυλακη

no Definition found

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

φυλακή , -ῆς , ἡ (< φυλάσσω ),

[in LXX chiefly for H4931 and cogn. forms, also for H3608 etc.;]

(a) actively, a guarding, guard, watch (Hom., Plat., Xen., al.): cogn. acc, φυλάσσειν φυλακάς , to keep watch, Luke 2:8;

(b) of those who keep watch (as also Lat. custodia), a guard; pl., sentinels, a guard (Hom., al.): Acts 12:10;

(c) of the place where persons are kept under guard, a prison (Hdt., Thuc., al.): Matthew 14:10, Mark 6:17, Luke 3:20, Acts 5:19, 2 Corinthians 6:5, 1 Peter 3:19, Revelation 18:2, al.;

(d) of the time during which guard was kept by night (Lest. vigilia; Anthol.), a watch: Matthew 14:25; Matthew 24:43, Mark 6:48, Luke 12:38.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

χρηματισμός is commonly used to denote a ";report,"; as in P Lond 20.22 (B.C. 162) ( = I. p. 9, UPZ i. p. 207) ἀξιῶ σε. . ἀναλαβόντα τὸν παρὰ Δωρίωνος χρηματισμὸν ἐπιτελέσαι ἀκολούθως, ib. 17.11 (B.C. 162) ( = I. p. 10, UPZ i. p. 209) τὸ ἀντίγραφον σὺν τῶι γεγονότι πρὸς αὐτὴν χρηματισμῶι προσήφαμεν, and .18 ἐπισταλέντος τοῦ καθήκοντος χρηματισμοῦ. In its only NT occurrence, Rom. 11:4, it is used of ";a divine response,"; ";an oracle"; : see s.v. χρηματίζω.

List of Word Forms

φυλακαις φυλακαίς φυλακαῖς φυλακας φυλακάς φυλακὰς φυλακη φυλακή φυλακὴ φυλακῇ φυλακην φυλακήν φυλακὴν φυλακης φυλακής φυλακῆς phulakais phulakas phulake phulakē phulaken phulakēn phulakes phulakēs phylakais phylakaîs phylakas phylakás phylakàs phylake phylakē phylakḕ phylakêi phylakē̂i phylaken phylakēn phylakḗn phylakḕn phylakes phylakês phylakēs phylakē̂s

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