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ΦΥΛΑΣ, φυλας
PHYLAS, phylas
Sounds Like: FYOO-laks
Translations: guard, a guard, watchman, a watchman
From the root: ΦΥΛΑΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a guard or watchman, someone who protects or keeps watch over something or someone. It is used to describe a person assigned to protect a place or individual, or to maintain order and security. It is a masculine noun.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5441 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Numbers — 24:2
- Psalms — 77:55
- Proverbs — 14:34
- Sirach — 36:10a, 48:10
- Isaiah — 19:13, 49:6, 63:17
- Zechariah — 9:1
- Matthew — 19:28
- Luke — 22:30
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 12:221
- Book 3 — 8:219
- Book 4 — 8:305
- Book 5 — 1:17
- Book 6 — 4:61
- Book 7 — 11:260
- Book 8 — 7:198, 8:226
- Book 10 — 9:184
- Book 11 — 5:133
Justin Martyr
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 17:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 24:4, 28:21, 36:21
- Numbers — 24:2, 26:55, 33:54
- Deuteronomy — 1:13, 16:18
- Joshua — 7:14, 7:16, 11:23, 23:4, 24:1
- Judges — 20:10
- 1 Samuel — 10:19, 10:21
- 2 Samuel — 24:2
- 1 Kings — 12:24
- Ezra (Alpha) — 1:4, 1:10, 5:1, 5:4, 7:9
- Tobit — 1:4
- Psalms of Solomon — 17:28, 17:48
- Proverbs — 14:34
- Sirach — 33:13, 48:10
- Isaiah — 19:13, 49:6, 63:17
- Ezekiel — 37:19, 45:8
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:2
- Zechariah — 9:1, 12:12
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- 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
- ΦΥΛΑΣΙΝ — (to) guards, (to) keepers, (to) watchmen
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