Guard
φυλακτήριοςStrong’s G5441phulaktērios
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Phulaktērios is the Greek word usually translated “guards”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.”
Meaning
Usually translated “guards”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- guards 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 12:6And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
- Acts 12:19And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
Greek dictionary
φυλακτήριος phulaktērios · guard
φύλαξ, -ακος, ὁ (φυλάσσω), [in LXX for שָׁמַר, צוּר ;] a guard, keeper: Act.5:23 12:6, 19.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “guard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GUARD, verb transitive
gard. [Latin verus; wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out; bewahren, to keep or preserve; bewahren, to verify, to confirm; Eng. ware, aware; ]
- To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety.
- To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.
- To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army.
- To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.
All definitions and other forms of “guard”
- To gird; to fasten by binding.
GUARD, verb intransitive
To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautions; to be in a state of defense or safety. guard against mistakes, or against temptations.
GUARD, noun
[Eng. ward.]
- Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.
- That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends.
- A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise.
- A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed.
- That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression.
- Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.
- In fencing, a posture of defense.
- An ornamental lace, hem or boarder.
GUARD'-BOAT, noun
A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to observe that their officers keep a good look-out.
GUARD'-CHAMBER, noun
A guard-room.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.