Greek noun (masculine) · G5441
φύλαξ
phylaxfoo'-lax
guard
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: phýlax
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5441is 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) · G5441
a watcher or sentry
The King James renders it: keeper.
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
phylax is rendered "guard". 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 5:23“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
Acts 5:23φύλακας
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
- guards3
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φυλακή | phylake | prison/watch: watch | Uses47 |
| φυλάσσω | phylasso | to keep/guard: protect | Uses31 |
| φυλακίζω | phylakizo | to imprison | Uses1 |
| φυλακτήριον | phylakterion | phylactery | Uses1 |
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
- φύλακας2
- φύλακές1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural2N-APM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
Acts
three uses
“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
- φύλακαςphulakasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: guards
On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
- φύλακέςphulakesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: guards
After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
- φύλακαςphulakasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: guards
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.