φυλακή
phylakḗ
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
Lexicon
Derivation: from G5442 (φυλάσσω);
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
- 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch
Usage
48 occurrences · 0 OT · 48 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- prison24 · 51%
- the prison8 · 17%
- watch6 · 13%
- prisons2 · 4%
- into prisons1 · 2%
- ward1 · 2%
- in prison1 · 2%
- imprisonments1 · 2%
- imprisonment1 · 2%
- the hold1 · 2%
- a cage1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.