Strong's Number G5438

φυλακή

phulake · foo-lak-ay'

Transliteration:

phulake{foo-lak-ay'}

Word Origin:

from 5442

TDNT:

9:241,1280

Part of Speech:

noun feminine

Strong's Definition:

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

Usage in the KJV:

prison 36, watch 6, imprisonment 2, hold 1, cage 1, ward 1

Total: 47
Occurs 47 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

guard, watch
1. a watching, keeping watch
  1. to keep watch
2. persons keeping watch, a guard, sentinels
3. of the place where captives are kept, a prison
4. of the time (of night) during which guard was kept, a watch i.e. a period of time during which part of the guard was on duty, and at the end of which others relieved them. As the earlier Greeks divided the night commonly into three parts, so, previous to the exile, the Israelites also had three watches in a night; subsequently, however, after they became subject to the Romans, they adopted the Roman custom of dividing the night into four watches