G5441: φύλαξ
phýlax · “guard”
Definition
a watcher or sentry
KJV translates it as: keeper
Word origin: from G5442 (φυλάσσω);
Extended definition
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G5441 is translated
- guards ×3
Bible verses with G5441 (phýlax)
Phýlax appears in 3 verses.
- Acts 5:23
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.
- Acts 12:6
And 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 12:19
And 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 Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.