Greek noun (masculine) · G1200
δεσμοφύλαξ
desmophylaxdes-mof-oo'-lax
jailer
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: desmophýlax
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1200is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1200
a jailer (as guarding the prisoners)
The King James renders it: jailor, keeper of the prison.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
desmophylax is rendered "jailer". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 16:23And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.
Acts 16:23δεσμοφύλακι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- jailer2
- to jailer1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δεσμοφύλαξ2
- δεσμοφύλακι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
Acts
three uses
And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.
- δεσμοφύλακιdesmophulakinoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: to jailer
When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.
- δεσμοφύλαξdesmophulaxnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: jailer
The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”
- δεσμοφύλαξdesmophulaxnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: jailer
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.