noun · masculine
desmofulaxos
Strong’sG1200
a keeper of a prison, a jailer
stem desmofulax-3 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
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.
*† δεσμο-φύλαξ, -κος, ὁ
(δεσμός, φύλαξ),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1200 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
gaoler, NT+1st c.BC+
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.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | desmofulaxos2×δεσμοφύλαξ | desmofulaxois |
| object accusative | desmofulaxon | desmofulaxoin |
| direct address vocative | desmofulaxor | desmofulaxoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | desmofulaxou | desmofulaxoiu |
| to, for dative | desmofulaxo1×δεσμοφύλακι | desmofulaxoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
desmofulaxo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
desmofulaxos“jailer”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 16:27exupnos de generantos tos desmofulaxos kai horarantos anoigorēntain tain thurain tau …When the jailer woke up and saw the prison …
Acts 16:36apangelata de tos desmofulaxos toin logoin houtoin pros ton Paulon, …The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent …
desmofulaxo“jailer”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 16:23… plēgain balala eis fulakan, parangelarantois to desmofulaxo asfalōs tērarō autoin;… them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.