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Lexicon :: Strong's G5438 - phylakē

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φυλακή
Transliteration
phylakē (Key)
Pronunciation
foo-lak-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:241,1280

Strong’s Definitions

φυλακή phylakḗ, foo-lak-ay'; from G5442; a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively:—cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's G5438 in the following manner: prison (36x), watch (6x), imprisonment (2x), hold (1x), cage (1x), ward (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's G5438 in the following manner: prison (36x), watch (6x), imprisonment (2x), hold (1x), cage (1x), ward (1x).

  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φυλακή phylakḗ, foo-lak-ay'; from G5442; a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively:—cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch.
STRONGS G5438:
φυλακή, φυλακῆς, ἡ (φυλάσσω), from Homer down, the Sept. for מִשְׁמֶרֶת, מִשְׁמָר, מַטָּרָה (a prison), כֶּלֶא (enclosure, confinement), guard, watch, i. e.
a. in an active sense, a watching, keeping watch: φυλάσσειν φυλακάς, to keep watch, Luke 2:8 (often in the Greek writings from Xenophon, an. 2, 6, 10, etc.; Plato legg. 6, p. 758 d. down; (cf. φυλακάς ἔχειν, etc. from Homer (Iliad 9, 1 etc.) on); often also in the Sept. for מִשְׁמָרות שָׁמַר).
b. like the Latincustodia and more frequently the pluralcustodiae (see Klotz, Hdwrbch. (or Harpers' Latin Dict.) under the word), equivalent to persons keeping watch, a guard, sentinels: Acts 12:10 (here A. V. ward) (and very often in secular authors from Homer down).
c. of the place where captives are kept, a prison: Matthew 14:10; Matthew 25:36,(39),43f; Mark 6:17, 27(28); Luke 3:20; Luke 21:12; Luke 22:33; Acts 5:19, 22; Acts 8:3; Acts 12:5f, 17; Acts 16:27, 40; Acts 22:4; Acts 26:10; 2 Corinthians 6:5 (here, as in Hebrews 11:36, A. V. imprisonment); 2 Corinthians 11:23; 1 Peter 3:19; Revelation 18:2 (twice; rendered in A. V. hold and cage (R. V. hold)); Rev. 20:7 (Herodotus 3, 152; Thucydides 3, 34; Plutarch, others; the Sept. for מַטָּרָה, כֶּלֶא בֵּית, and הַכֶּלֶא בֵּית, מִשְׁמָר); βάλλειν or τιθέναι τινα εἰς (τήν) φυλακήν or ἐν (τῇ) φυλακή: Matthew 5:25; Matthew 14:3 (R G, others, ἀπέθετο); Matt. 18:30; Luke 12:58; Luke 23:19, 25; John 3:24; Acts 5:25; Acts 8:3 (here παραδιδόναι εἰς φυλακήν); Acts 12:4; 16:23f,37; Revelation 2:10.
d. of the time (of night) during which guard was kept, a watch i. e. the period of time during which a part of the guard were on duty, and at the end of which others relieved them. As the earlier Greeks divided the night commonly into three parts (see Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 4), so, previously to the exile, the Israelites also had three watches in a night; subsequently, however, after they became subject to Rome, they adopted the Roman custom of dividing the night into four watches: Matthew 24:43; ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ, τρίτῃ, Luke 12:38; τετάρτῃ, Matthew 14:25; Mark 6:48. Cf. Winer's RWB under the word Nachtwache; (McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word ; B. D. under the phrase, ).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:25; 14:3; 14:10; 14:25; 18:30; 24:43; 25:36
Mark
6:17; 6:27; 6:48
Luke
2:8; 3:20; 12:38; 12:58; 21:12; 22:33; 23:19; 23:25
John
3:24
Acts
5:19; 5:22; 5:25; 8:3; 8:3; 12:4; 12:5; 12:10; 12:17; 16:23; 16:27; 16:37; 16:40; 22:4; 26:10
2 Corinthians
6:5; 11:23
Hebrews
11:36
1 Peter
3:19
Revelation
2:10; 18:2; 20:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5438 matches the Greek φυλακή (phylakē),
which occurs 105 times in 94 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 40:3–2Ch 13:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4 - And the captain of the bodyguard appointed Joseph as overseer over them, and he [fn]attended to them; and they were in confinement for [fn]some time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, saying, “Why are your faces so sad today?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:10 - “Pharaoh was furious with his servants, and he put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, both me and the chief baker.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:17 - Then he put them all together in prison for three days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19 - if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in [fn]your prison; but as for the rest of you, go, bring grain for the famine of your households,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:30 - “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us and took us for spies of the country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:24 - Then at the morning watch, Yahweh looked down on the camp of the Egyptians [fn]through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the camp of the Egyptians into confusion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:12 - And they put him in [fn]custody [fn]so that the command of Yahweh might be made clear to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - “But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - “And they shall keep his responsibility and the responsibility for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to perform the service of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - “They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the responsibility of the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the [fn]tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - Now the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - In the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - Now their responsibility involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all the service [fn]concerning them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was the chief of the leaders of Levi and had the oversight of those who keep the responsibility of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - Now the appointed responsibility of the sons of Merari involved the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its bases, all its equipment, and the service concerning them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 -

Now those who were to camp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary for the responsibility of the sons of Israel; but the [fn]outsider coming near was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - “This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their responsibilities shall be [fn]under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - and the pillars around the court and their bases and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign each man by name the items of the responsibility of [fn]his load.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - “They may, however, minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting in order to keep up their responsibility, but they themselves shall perform no service. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their responsibilities.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, [fn]the sons of Israel would keep the charge of Yahweh and not set out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:23 - At the [fn]command of Yahweh they camped, and at the [fn]command of Yahweh they set out; they kept the charge of Yahweh, according to the [fn]command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:34 - and they put him in [fn]custody because it had not been [fn]declared what should be done to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3 - “And they shall thus keep your responsibility and the responsibility of all the tent, but they shall not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, so that neither they nor you will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:4 - “And they shall be joined with you and keep the responsibility of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; but [fn]an outsider may not come near you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:5 - “So you shall keep the responsibility of the sanctuary and the responsibility of the altar, so that there will no longer be wrath on the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 -

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set up the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he was a grinder in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 -

So it happened when their hearts were merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may amuse us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he [fn]entertained them. And they made him stand between the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - Then the next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

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Then David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and placed them under guard and provided them with sustenance, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - “And you shall keep the responsibility given by Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may be prosperous in all that you do and wherever you turn,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison and feed him [fn]sparingly with bread and water until I come back safely.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:5 - And he commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: one-third of you, who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the king’s house

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:6 - (one-third also shall be at the gate Sur, and one-third at the gate behind the [fn]guards), [fn]shall keep watch over the house for defense.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:7 - “And two parts of you, even all who go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of Yahweh for the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 -

Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29 - So [fn]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and [fn]had his meals in [fn]the king’s presence continually all the days of his life;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:19 -

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of [fn]Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:27 - And they spent the night all around the house of God, because the watch was [fn]committed to them; and they were over opening it morning by morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:29 -

Of the sons of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives, 3,000; for until now the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:32 - Thus they shall keep responsibility of the tent of meeting, and responsibility of the holy place, and responsibility of the sons of Aaron their [fn]relatives, for the service of the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:16 - For Shuppim and Hosah it was to the west, by the gate of Shallecheth, on the ascending highway. Guard corresponded to guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - And the priests stood at their posts, and the Levites also, with the instruments of music to Yahweh, which King David had made for giving thanks to Yahweh-“for His lovingkindness endures forever”—whenever [fn]he gave praise by their hand, while the priests on the other side blew trumpets; and all Israel was standing.

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And according to the judgment of his father David, he caused the divisions of the priests to stand for their service, and the Levites for their responsibilities to praise and minister before the priests according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for David the man of God had so commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - “And every morning and evening they [fn]burn to Yahweh burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the responsibility given by Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken Him.

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