Strong G5438G5438Hφυλακή
prison/watch: watch
One of the 2 senses of Strong G5438
- Transliteration
- phulakē
- Pronunciation
- foo-lak-ay'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From G5442; a guarding or (concretely guard) the act the parson; figuratively the place the condition or (specifically) the time (as a division of day or night) literally or figuratively: - cage hold (im-) prison (-ment) ward watch.
Detailed definition
φυλακή, -ῆς, ἡ
(φυλάσσω) [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁמֶרֶת and cogn. forms, also for כֶּלֶא etc.;]
__(a) actively, a guarding, guard, watch (Hom., Plat., Xen., al.): cogn. accusative, φυλάσσειν φυλακάς, to keep watch, Luk.2:8;
__(b) of those who keep watch (as also Lat. custodia), a guard; pl., sentinels, a guard (Hom., al.): Act.12:10;
__(with) of the place where persons are kept under guard, a prison (Hdt., Thuc., al.): Mat.14:10, Mrk.6:17, Luk.3:20, Act.5:19, 2Co.6:5, 1Pe.3:19, Rev.18:2, al.;
__(d) of the time during which guard was kept by night (Lest. vigilia; Anthol.), a watch: Mat.14:25 24:43, Mrk.6:48, Luk.12:38
(AS)
(φυλάσσω) [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁמֶרֶת and cogn. forms, also for כֶּלֶא etc.;]
__(a) actively, a guarding, guard, watch (Hom., Plat., Xen., al.): cogn. accusative, φυλάσσειν φυλακάς, to keep watch, Luk.2:8;
__(b) of those who keep watch (as also Lat. custodia), a guard; pl., sentinels, a guard (Hom., al.): Act.12:10;
__(with) of the place where persons are kept under guard, a prison (Hdt., Thuc., al.): Mat.14:10, Mrk.6:17, Luk.3:20, Act.5:19, 2Co.6:5, 1Pe.3:19, Rev.18:2, al.;
__(d) of the time during which guard was kept by night (Lest. vigilia; Anthol.), a watch: Mat.14:25 24:43, Mrk.6:48, Luk.12:38
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5438H appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- watch4
First verses
- Matthew 14:25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
- Mark 6:48And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
- Luke 2:8And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
- Luke 12:38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
φῠλᾰκ-ή, ἡ,
(φύλαξ) watching or guarding, especially by night, φυλακῆς μνήσασθε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.371)]; φυλακὰς ἔχειν keep watch and ward, [Refs (9.1, 471)]; φ. κατέχειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 194 (Lyric poetry))]; φυλακὴ ἔχει αὐτόν watching engages him, variant in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 188.4; φ. νυκτερινή 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 2: proverbial, γυμνῷ φυλακὴν ἐπιτάττειν)] tell an unarmed man to stand on the defensive, i.e. to give commands that cannot be obeyed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 144, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 12; περὶ φυλακῆς Εὐβοίας.. ἐπιμέλεσθαι “IG” 12.39.76)]; ὅπως ἀφανὴς εἴη ἡ φ. that there might be nothing visible to watch, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.67; φυλακὴν [τῶν τειχῶν] ἔρημον καταλιπεῖν 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 17)]; φυλακὰς φυλάξειν keep watch and ward, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 758d; τὴν ἐν θαλάττῃ φ. φυλάττειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 7.14; φ. ποιῆσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.31; τὴν φ. ποιεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.16; φυλακὰς ποιήσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.21; ἰσχυρὰς φ. ποιεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.6.37)]; φυλακὰς καταστήσασθαι, κατασκευάσασθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 841, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.23.)]
2 watch or guard, of persons, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 321d (_plural_), NT.Act.12.10, etc.; φ. ἑωυτοῦ ποιεύμενός [τινας] 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.154)]; φ. τοῦ σώματος a body guard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.3; τῶν σωμάτων 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.9; φ. περὶ τὸ σῶμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.58, compare “PHib.” 1.59.5 (3rd c.BC))], etc.; garrison of a place or fortress, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.30)]; ἡ ἐν τῇ Ναυπάκτῳ φ., of a squadron of ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.17, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.22.)]
2.b the rank of φύλακες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 415c.)]
3 station, post, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.408 (_plural_), 416 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.49; φυλακὰς προλιπών 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 18 (_anapaest meter_))]; Διὸς φ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus)] name for the centre of the universe, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 293b3.)]
4 of time, a watch of the night, ἐπεὰν τῆς νυκτὸς ἦ δευτέρη φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.51)]; πρώτης φ. ἀρχομένης Wilcken [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 1 ii 18 (3rd c.BC))]; φυλακαῖσι νυκτέροισιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 765; φ. νυκτερινὰς καὶ ἡμερινὰς καθιστάναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43)]: of these there were three, accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 5)]; but five are mentioned in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Stesichorus Lyricus 55, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 219 A, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 543 (Lyric poetry))]; and the Roman division was four, [NT (NT.Matt.14.25, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)]
5 place for keeping others in, ward, prison, δημοσία φ. [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 10.30; εἰς φυλακὴν βληθείς “Anthologia Graeca” 11.276 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus); βαλεῖν τινὰ εἰς φ. NT.Matt.18.30, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.1.24; θέσθαι τινὰ ἐν φυλακῇ LXX.Gen.40.3, cf. NT.Matt.14.3)]; πολιτικὴ φ. the town-prison, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (POxy. 259.8 (1st c.AD).)]
6 Astrology texts ={ταπείνωμα}, [Refs (“PMich.” in “Class.Phil.” 22.22 (_plural_).)]
II guarding, keeping, preserving, whether for security or custody, ἐν φυλακῇ ἔχειν τινά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24; ἐν φ. ἀδέσμῳ ἔχειν τινά 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.34; ἐν φυλακῇσι μεγάλῃσι ἔχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.99)]; τὸν Ἰσθμὸν ἔχειν ἐν φ. to keep the Isthmus guarded or occupied, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.207, compare 8.40)]; τὸν ἠνείκαντο γλώσσης χαρακτῆρα τοῦτον ἔχειν ἐν φ. to preserve the same character of language, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.57; ἔχειν νόον ἐν φ. 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 439; τὰ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἐν πλείστῃ φ., παῖδας καὶ γυναῖκας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.215; τὰ κατὰ τὸ στρατόπεδον διὰ φυλακῆς ἔχων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.8; τὸν πλοῦν διὰ φ. ποιησάμενοι [prev. author] 8.39)]; στόματος φυλακᾷ κατασχεῖν φθόγγον probably in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 236 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐν φ. σχεθέμεν μεγάλᾳ be very ware of, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.75)]; φυλακὴν ἔχειν, ={φυλάττεσθαι}, keep guard, be on the watch, περί τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.39; φ. ἔχων εἴ κως δυναίμην.. [prev. work] 38)]; φ. ἔχειν μή.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.69)]; φ. λαμβάνειν μή.. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 20)]; δεινῶς ἦσαν ἐν φυλακῇσι were straitly on their guard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.152, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 592 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.2 custody of property, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309b6, “EN” 1120a9.)]
II.3 safeguard, τὴν μεγίστην φ. ἀνῄρηκε τῆς πόλεως its chief safeguard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.19; φ. παρέχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.13)]; δημοκρατίας, μοναρχίας φ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.28, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1315a8.)]
III (from middle) precaution, πολλῆς φ. ἔργον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 537d; φ. θαυμαστῆς δεομένη [prev. author] “Lg.” 906a, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.99.)]
III.2 with genitive, precaution against, εὐλάβεια φ. κακοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 413d; ὑποψίας φυλακὴν ποιήσασθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.2; φ. τῶν πάντα μολυνόντων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 80, compare 73.)]
(φύλαξ) watching or guarding, especially by night, φυλακῆς μνήσασθε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.371)]; φυλακὰς ἔχειν keep watch and ward, [Refs (9.1, 471)]; φ. κατέχειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 194 (Lyric poetry))]; φυλακὴ ἔχει αὐτόν watching engages him, variant in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 188.4; φ. νυκτερινή 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 2: proverbial, γυμνῷ φυλακὴν ἐπιτάττειν)] tell an unarmed man to stand on the defensive, i.e. to give commands that cannot be obeyed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 144, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 12; περὶ φυλακῆς Εὐβοίας.. ἐπιμέλεσθαι “IG” 12.39.76)]; ὅπως ἀφανὴς εἴη ἡ φ. that there might be nothing visible to watch, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.67; φυλακὴν [τῶν τειχῶν] ἔρημον καταλιπεῖν 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 17)]; φυλακὰς φυλάξειν keep watch and ward, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 758d; τὴν ἐν θαλάττῃ φ. φυλάττειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 7.14; φ. ποιῆσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.31; τὴν φ. ποιεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.16; φυλακὰς ποιήσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.21; ἰσχυρὰς φ. ποιεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.6.37)]; φυλακὰς καταστήσασθαι, κατασκευάσασθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 841, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.23.)]
2 watch or guard, of persons, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 321d (_plural_), NT.Act.12.10, etc.; φ. ἑωυτοῦ ποιεύμενός [τινας] 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.154)]; φ. τοῦ σώματος a body guard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.3; τῶν σωμάτων 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.9; φ. περὶ τὸ σῶμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.58, compare “PHib.” 1.59.5 (3rd c.BC))], etc.; garrison of a place or fortress, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.30)]; ἡ ἐν τῇ Ναυπάκτῳ φ., of a squadron of ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.17, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.22.)]
2.b the rank of φύλακες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 415c.)]
3 station, post, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.408 (_plural_), 416 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.49; φυλακὰς προλιπών 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 18 (_anapaest meter_))]; Διὸς φ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus)] name for the centre of the universe, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 293b3.)]
4 of time, a watch of the night, ἐπεὰν τῆς νυκτὸς ἦ δευτέρη φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.51)]; πρώτης φ. ἀρχομένης Wilcken [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 1 ii 18 (3rd c.BC))]; φυλακαῖσι νυκτέροισιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 765; φ. νυκτερινὰς καὶ ἡμερινὰς καθιστάναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43)]: of these there were three, accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 5)]; but five are mentioned in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Stesichorus Lyricus 55, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 219 A, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 543 (Lyric poetry))]; and the Roman division was four, [NT (NT.Matt.14.25, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)]
5 place for keeping others in, ward, prison, δημοσία φ. [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 10.30; εἰς φυλακὴν βληθείς “Anthologia Graeca” 11.276 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus); βαλεῖν τινὰ εἰς φ. NT.Matt.18.30, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.1.24; θέσθαι τινὰ ἐν φυλακῇ LXX.Gen.40.3, cf. NT.Matt.14.3)]; πολιτικὴ φ. the town-prison, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (POxy. 259.8 (1st c.AD).)]
6 Astrology texts ={ταπείνωμα}, [Refs (“PMich.” in “Class.Phil.” 22.22 (_plural_).)]
II guarding, keeping, preserving, whether for security or custody, ἐν φυλακῇ ἔχειν τινά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24; ἐν φ. ἀδέσμῳ ἔχειν τινά 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.34; ἐν φυλακῇσι μεγάλῃσι ἔχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.99)]; τὸν Ἰσθμὸν ἔχειν ἐν φ. to keep the Isthmus guarded or occupied, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.207, compare 8.40)]; τὸν ἠνείκαντο γλώσσης χαρακτῆρα τοῦτον ἔχειν ἐν φ. to preserve the same character of language, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.57; ἔχειν νόον ἐν φ. 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 439; τὰ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἐν πλείστῃ φ., παῖδας καὶ γυναῖκας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.215; τὰ κατὰ τὸ στρατόπεδον διὰ φυλακῆς ἔχων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.8; τὸν πλοῦν διὰ φ. ποιησάμενοι [prev. author] 8.39)]; στόματος φυλακᾷ κατασχεῖν φθόγγον probably in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 236 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐν φ. σχεθέμεν μεγάλᾳ be very ware of, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.75)]; φυλακὴν ἔχειν, ={φυλάττεσθαι}, keep guard, be on the watch, περί τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.39; φ. ἔχων εἴ κως δυναίμην.. [prev. work] 38)]; φ. ἔχειν μή.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.69)]; φ. λαμβάνειν μή.. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 20)]; δεινῶς ἦσαν ἐν φυλακῇσι were straitly on their guard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.152, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 592 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.2 custody of property, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309b6, “EN” 1120a9.)]
II.3 safeguard, τὴν μεγίστην φ. ἀνῄρηκε τῆς πόλεως its chief safeguard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.19; φ. παρέχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.13)]; δημοκρατίας, μοναρχίας φ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.28, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1315a8.)]
III (from middle) precaution, πολλῆς φ. ἔργον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 537d; φ. θαυμαστῆς δεομένη [prev. author] “Lg.” 906a, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.99.)]
III.2 with genitive, precaution against, εὐλάβεια φ. κακοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 413d; ὑποψίας φυλακὴν ποιήσασθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.2; φ. τῶν πάντα μολυνόντων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 80, compare 73.)]