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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 47 times in 45 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:25 - Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:3 - For Herod had laid hold of Yochanan, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Pilipos's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:10 - and he sent and beheaded Yochanan in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:25 - In the fourth watch of the night Yeshua came to them, walking on the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:30 - He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:43 - But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36 - naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:39 - When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:43 - I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:44 - "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:17 - For Herod himself had sent out and arrested Yochanan, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Pilipos's wife, for he had married her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:27 - Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring Yochanan's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:48

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:48 - Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:8 - There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:20 - added this also to them all, that he shut up Yochanan in prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:38 - They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:58

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:58 - For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:33 - He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:19 - one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:25 - He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Yeshua up to their will.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:24 - For Yochanan was not yet thrown into prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:19 - But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:22 - But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:25 - One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:3 - But Sha'ul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:4 - When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Pesach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:5 - Rock therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6 - The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Rock was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:10 - When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:17 - But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to Ya`akov, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:23 - When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:24 - who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:27 - The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:37 - But Sha'ul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:40

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:40 - They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:4 - I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:10 - This I also did in Yerushalayim. I both shut up many of the holy ones in prisons, having received authority from the chief Kohanim, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:5 - in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:23 - Are they servants of Messiah? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:36 - Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:19 - in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:10 - Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:2 - He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Bavel the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:7 - And after the thousand years, Hasatan will be released from his prison,
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