2001 Translation

PHYLAKES, phylakes

Sounds Like: foo-LA-kes

Translations: guards, watchmen, keepers

From the root: ΦΥΛΑΞ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to individuals who are assigned to guard, watch over, or keep something or someone. They might be soldiers, sentinels, or simply people responsible for maintaining custody or oversight. It is used in a plural sense, indicating multiple such individuals.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G5438 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• 2 Esdras — 22:25
• Ecclesiastes — 12:3
• Song of Solomon — 5:7, 5:9
• Acts of the Apostles — 12:6

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 8:183
• Book 6 — 13:297
• Book 13 — 2:42
• Book 14 — 13:344, 15:401
• Book 17 — 9:223

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 16:10
• Book Four — 1:71, 2:14, 9:34
• Book Five — 2:3, 5:62, 12:21
• Book Six — 5:24

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Ecclesiastes — 12:3
• Song of Solomon — 5:7
• Ezekiel — 27:11

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 12:6

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.

• ΟΙΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ — the guards, the watchmen, the keepers
• ΤΑΣΦΥΛΑΚΑΣ — the guards, the watchmen, the sentinels
• ΤΩΝΦΥΛΑΚΩΝ — of the guards, of the watchmen, of the keepers
• ΦΥΛΑΚΑΣ — guards, watchmen
• 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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