φυλακίζω
phylakízō · G5439 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to imprison, imprisonment, to put in jail
To confine someone in prison
ExamplesActs 22:19 “And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- δέω déō · G1210 · to tie, to tie together, to tie up
- Both terms denote incarceration or imprisonment. δέω has a wide range of senses (to bind, in general), one of which is specifically imprisonment, while the target is specialized to this exact sense of incarceration. The overlap occurs precisely at δέω's imprisonment sense, not a peripheral or incidental one.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To restrain, to imprison, imprisonment, to put in jail37.114
- Acts 22:19 has Paul recall, “they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You”.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (φυλακή (or φύλαξ)); to cast into prison, imprison: Acts 22:19. (Wis. 18:4;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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