fulaktēriem

Strong’sG5440

a phylactery, an amulet

stem fulaktēri-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.

* φυλακτήριον, -ου, τό

1. an outpost, fortification (Thuc., al.).

2. a safeguard (Plat.).

3. an amulet (Plut., al.); in NT for the Talmudic תְּפִלִּין, a prayer fillet, a phylactery, a small strip of parchment on which portions of the law were written and worn on the forehead and next the heart (cf. Ex 13:16): Mt 23:5.†

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

Strong’s G5440 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfoo-lak-tay'-ree-on

a guard-case, i.e. "phylactery" for wearing slips of Scripture texts

Fromneuter of a derivative of G5442;

King Jamesphylactery.

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

φῠλᾰκ-τήριον, τό,
guarded post, fort, castle, Refs 5th c.BC+: especially an outpost communicating with fortifications, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, guardrooms, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 safeguard, security, Refs 5th c.BC+: preservative, Refs 4th c.BC+; amulet, Refs 1st c.AD+; among the Jews φυλακτήρια were small rolls of parchment with texts from the Law written on them, bound to the forehead by persons praying, NT; φ. χρυσᾶ, symbols denoting the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt, Refs 2nd c.BC+; amulet, Refs
3 perhaps guard or chain, PLond.unpublished2199.

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.

phylacteries1×

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 or object direct	fulaktēriem	fulaktērieim
of, belonging to genitive	fulaktērieu	fulaktērieiu
to, for dative	fulaktērie	fulaktēriei

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

fulaktēristem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

fulaktērie 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

fulaktērieim1×

Matthew 23:5… theasira toi anthrōpoi; platunalō gar teim fulaktērieim autoiu kai megalunalō teim kraspedeim,… men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.