ΟΙΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ, οιφυλακες
OIPHYLAKES, oiphylakes
Sounds Like: oy-phoo-LA-kes
Translations: the guards, the watchmen, the keepers
From the root: ΦΥΛΑΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This is the nominative masculine plural form of the noun 'ΦΥΛΑΞ' (phylax), meaning 'guard' or 'watchman'. It refers to multiple individuals who are responsible for guarding, watching, or keeping something or someone. It is used to denote the subject of a sentence when referring to these individuals.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5441 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 2:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΥΛΑΞ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΤΑΣΦΥΛΑΚΑΣ — the guards, the watchmen, the sentinels
- ΤΩΝΦΥΛΑΚΩΝ — of the guards, of the watchmen, of the keepers
- ΦΥΛΑΚΑΣ — guards, watchmen
- ΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ — guards, watchmen, keepers
- ΦΥΛΑΚΟΣ — of a guard, of a keeper, of a watchman
- ΦΥΛΑΚΩΝ — of guards, of watchmen, of keepers
- ΦΥΛΑΞ — guard, a guard, watchman, a watchman, keeper, a keeper
- ΦΥΛΑΞʼ — guard, a guard, keeper, a keeper, watchman, a watchman
- ΦΥΛΑΞΙ — (to) guards, (to) keepers, (to) watchmen
- ΦΥΛΑΞΙΝ — to guards, to keepers, to watchmen, to preservers
- ΦΥΛΑΣ — guard, a guard, watchman, a watchman
- ΦΥΛΑΣΙΝ — (to) guards, (to) keepers, (to) watchmen
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