Phulake

foo-lak-ay'
Parts of Speech Noun Feminine

Phulake Definition

NAS Word Usage - Total: 46
  1. guard, watch
    1. a watching, keeping watch
      1. to keep watch
    2. persons keeping watch, a guard, sentinels
    3. of the place where captives are kept, a prison
    4. of the time (of night) during which guard was kept, a watch i.e. a period of time during which part of the guard was on duty, and at the end of which others relieved them. As the earlier Greeks divided the night commonly into three parts, so, previous to the exile, the Israelites also had three watches in a night; subsequently, however, after they became subject to the Romans, they adopted the Roman custom of dividing the night into four watches
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
fulake
Origin
from (5442)
Strong's Number
5438
TDNT Entry
9:241,1280

NAS Word Usage

guard
1
imprisonment
1
imprisonments
2
prison
34
prisons
3
time of the night
1
watch
4
Total
46

NAS Verse Count

10
3
8
1
16
2
1
1
3
Total
45
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Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.

Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Phulake". "The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon". . 1999. . 1999.