1 | Strong's Number: g5438 | Greek: phulake |
Cage:
from phulasso, "to guard," denotes
(a) "a watching, keeping watch," Luk 2:8;
(b) "persons keeping watch, a guard," Act 12:10;
(c) "a period during which watch is kept," e.g., Mat 24:43;
(d) "a prison, a hold." In Rev 18:2, AV, Babylon is described figuratively, first as a "hold" and then as a "cage" of every unclean and hateful bird (RV, "hold" in both clauses; marg., "prison"). The word is almost invariably translated "prison."
See HOLD, IMPRISONMENT, PRISON, WARD, WATCH.
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