Greek noun (feminine) · G2892
κουστωδία
koustodiakoos-to-dee'-ah
guard
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: koustōdía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2892is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2892
"custody", i.e. a Roman sentry
The King James renders it: watch.
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
koustodia is rendered "guard". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 27:65“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”
Matthew 27:65κουστωδίαν
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 Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- guard2
- a guard1
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.
3 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
- κουστωδίαν1
- κουστωδίας1
- κουστωδίας.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Matthew
three uses
“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”
- κουστωδίανkoustodiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a guard
So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.
- κουστωδίας.¶koustodiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: guard
While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened.
- κουστωδίαςkoustodiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: guard
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.