noun · masculine
fulakos
Strong’sG5441
a guard, keeper, sentinel
stem fulak-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.
φύλαξ, -ακος, ὁ
(< φυλάσσω), [in LXX for שָׁמַר, צוּר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5441 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfoo'-lax
a watcher or sentry
Fromfrom G5442;
King Jameskeeper.
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
serving as a protection, τὰ περί τι φ. Refs 5th c.BC+, φῠλᾰκ-της, ου, ὁ, one who preserves, τῶν ἰδίων ἐθῶν Refs 1st c.AD+
II ={φυλακτήρ}, a magistrate at Cumae, Refs 1st 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.
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 | fulakos | fulakois1×φύλακές |
| object accusative | fulakon | fulakoin2×φύλακας |
| direct address vocative | fulakor | fulakoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | fulakou | fulakoiu |
| to, for dative | fulako | fulakoi |
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
fulako 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
fulakois“guards”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 12:6“guards”… metaxu duo stratiōtoiu dorēntos halusiai duo, fulakois tē pro tau thurau tērale tan …… the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
fulakoin“guards”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 5:23… kleiorēntem en panta asfaleia kai toin fulakoin stēarēntoin epi taiu thuraiu, anoigarantois de …… the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when …
Acts 12:19… auton kai mē heuriskarantos anakrinarantos toin fulakoin keleuata apagira, kai katercharantos apo tau …… for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed …