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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

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Strong's Number G5438 matches the Greek φυλακή (phylakē),
which occurs 47 times in 45 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:25 - esto consentiens adversario tuo cito dum es in via cum eo ne forte tradat te adversarius iudici et iudex tradat te ministro et in carcerem mittaris

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:3 - Herodes enim tenuit Iohannem et alligavit eum et posuit in carcere propter Herodiadem uxorem fratris sui

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:10 - misitque et decollavit Iohannem in carcere

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:25 - quarta autem vigilia noctis venit ad eos ambulans supra mare

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:30 - ille autem noluit sed abiit et misit eum in carcerem donec redderet debitum

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:43 - illud autem scitote quoniam si sciret pater familias qua hora fur venturus esset vigilaret utique et non sineret perfodiri domum suam

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36 - nudus et operuistis me infirmus et visitastis me in carcere eram et venistis ad me

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:39 - aut quando te vidimus infirmum aut in carcere et venimus ad te

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:43 - hospes eram et non collexistis me nudus et non operuistis me infirmus et in carcere et non visitastis me

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:44 - tunc respondebunt et ipsi dicentes Domine quando te vidimus esurientem aut sitientem aut hospitem aut nudum aut infirmum vel in carcere et non ministravimus tibi

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:17 - ipse enim Herodes misit ac tenuit Iohannem et vinxit eum in carcere propter Herodiadem uxorem Philippi fratris sui quia duxerat eam

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:27 - sed misso speculatore praecepit adferri caput eius in disco et decollavit eum in carcere

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:48 - et videns eos laborantes in remigando erat enim ventus contrarius eis et circa quartam vigiliam noctis venit ad eos ambulans super mare et volebat praeterire eos

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:8 - et pastores erant in regione eadem vigilantes et custodientes vigilias noctis supra gregem suum

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:20 - adiecit et hoc supra omnia et inclusit Iohannem in carcere

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:38 - et si venerit in secunda vigilia et si in tertia vigilia venerit et ita invenerit beati sunt servi illi

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:58 - cum autem vadis cum adversario tuo ad principem in via da operam liberari ab illo ne forte trahat te apud iudicem et iudex tradat te exactori et exactor mittat te in carcerem

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - sed ante haec omnia inicient vobis manus suas et persequentur tradentes in synagogas et custodias trahentes ad reges et praesides propter nomen meum

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:33 - qui dixit ei Domine tecum paratus sum et in carcerem et in mortem ire

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:19 - qui erat propter seditionem quandam factam in civitate et homicidium missus in carcerem

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:25 - dimisit autem illis eum qui propter homicidium et seditionem missus fuerat in carcerem quem petebant Iesum vero tradidit voluntati eorum

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:24 - nondum enim missus fuerat in carcerem Iohannes

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:19 - angelus autem Domini per noctem aperiens ianuas carceris et educens eos dixit

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:22 - cum venissent autem ministri et aperto carcere non invenissent illos reversi nuntiaverunt

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:25 - adveniens autem quidam nuntiavit eis quia ecce viri quos posuistis in carcere sunt in templo stantes et docentes populum

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:3 - Saulus vero devastabat ecclesiam per domos intrans et trahens viros ac mulieres tradebat in custodiam

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:4 - quem cum adprehendisset misit in carcerem tradens quattuor quaternionibus militum custodire eum volens post pascha producere eum populo

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:5 - et Petrus quidem servabatur in carcere oratio autem fiebat sine intermissione ab ecclesia ad Deum pro eo

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6 - cum autem producturus eum esset Herodes in ipsa nocte erat Petrus dormiens inter duos milites vinctus catenis duabus et custodes ante ostium custodiebant carcerem

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:10 - transeuntes autem primam et secundam custodiam venerunt ad portam ferream quae ducit ad civitatem quae ultro aperta est eis et exeuntes processerunt vicum unum et continuo discessit angelus ab eo

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:17 - annuens autem eis manu ut tacerent enarravit quomodo Dominus eduxisset eum de carcere dixitque nuntiate Iacobo et fratribus haec et egressus abiit in alium locum

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:23 - et cum multas plagas eis inposuissent miserunt eos in carcerem praecipientes custodi ut diligenter custodiret eos

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:24 - qui cum tale praeceptum accepisset misit eos in interiorem carcerem et pedes eorum strinxit in ligno

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:27 - expergefactus autem custos carceris et videns apertas ianuas carceris evaginato gladio volebat se interficere aestimans fugisse vinctos

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:37 - Paulus autem dixit eis caesos nos publice indemnatos homines romanos miserunt in carcerem et nunc occulte nos eiciunt non ita sed veniant

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:40 - exeuntes autem de carcere introierunt ad Lydiam et visis fratribus consolati sunt eos et profecti sunt

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:4 - qui hanc viam persecutus sum usque ad mortem alligans et tradens in custodias viros ac mulieres

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:10 - quod et feci Hierosolymis et multos sanctorum ego in carceribus inclusi a principibus sacerdotum potestate accepta et cum occiderentur detuli sententiam

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:5 - in plagis in carceribus in seditionibus in laboribus in vigiliis in ieiuniis

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:23 - ministri Christi sunt minus sapiens dico plus ego in laboribus plurimis in carceribus abundantius in plagis supra modum in mortibus frequenter

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:36 - alii vero ludibria et verbera experti insuper et vincula et carceres

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:19 - in quo et his qui in carcere erant spiritibus veniens praedicavit

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:10 - nihil horum timeas quae passurus es ecce missurus est diabolus ex vobis in carcerem ut temptemini et habebitis tribulationem diebus decem esto fidelis usque ad mortem et dabo tibi coronam vitae

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:2 - et exclamavit in forti voce dicens cecidit cecidit Babylon magna et facta est habitatio daemoniorum et custodia omnis spiritus inmundi et custodia omnis volucris inmundae

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:7 - et cum consummati fuerint mille anni solvetur Satanas de carcere suo
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