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adverb

Greekἀσφαλῶς (asfalōs)
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asfalōs

Strong’sG806

safely, securely, assuredly

stem asfalō-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἀσφαλῶς,

adv.,

[in LXX: Ge 34:25 (בֶּטַח), To 6:4, Wi 18:6, Ba 5:7, I Mac 6:40, III Mac 7:6*;]

(a) safely: Mk 14:44, Ac 16:23;
(b) assuredly: Ac 2:36.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G806 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas-fal-oce'

securely (literally or figuratively)

Fromadverb from G804;

King Jamesassuredly, safely.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Included with: ἀσφαλός, ὁ,
name of a bird, Refs 5th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

for certain1×securely1×under guard1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

asfalōs3×

Mark 14:44“under guard”… autos atō; kratavar auton kai apagavōr asfalōs.… I kiss is the man; arrest Him and lead Him away securely.”

Acts 2:36“for certain”asfalōs oun gnōskatōr pantos oikos Israēl hoti …Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has …

Acts 16:23… balala eis fulakan, parangelarantois to desmofulaxo asfalōs tērarō autoin;… ordered the jailer to guard them securely.