noun · feminine
koustōdias
Strong’sG2892
a guard
stem koustōdi-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.
*† κουστωδία, -ας, ἡ, (Lat. custodia),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2892 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoos-to-dee'-ah
"custody", i.e. a Roman sentry
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jameswatch.
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
= Latin custodia, NT
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 | koustōdias | koustōdiais |
| object accusative | koustōdian1×κουστωδίαν | koustōdiain |
| direct address vocative | koustōdiar | koustōdiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | koustōdiau2×κουστωδίας | koustōdiaiu |
| to, for dative | koustōdia | koustōdiai |
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
koustōdia 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
koustōdian“guard”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 27:65fēate autoi tos Pilatos; Echavō koustōdian; hupagavōr asfalizevar hōs oidavē.“You have a guard,” Pilate said. “Go, make the tomb …
koustōdiau“guard”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 27:66… tafon sfragizarantois ton lithon meta tau koustōdiau.… sealing the stone and posting the guard.
Matthew 28:11“guard”Poreuorōntoiu de autaiu idou tinois tau koustōdiau ercharantois eis tan polan apangelala toi …… their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests …