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Words
φυλακή G5438
- Home gloss
- custody
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- ward / custody / custody
- Note
- Being held under guard (Gen 40:3–7; 41:10; Acts 12:4–6; Matt 25:36). "Prison" is δεσμωτήριον's (39:20; 40:3, 5), "stronghold" ὀχύρωμα's. The watch of the night (Matt 14:25; Luke 2:8) is a later split by construction
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (7)
- 40:3 And he set them in custody with the chief jailer, into the prison, into the place where Joseph had been led away.
- 40:4 And the chief of prisoners made them stand with Joseph, and he stood by them; now they were days in custody.
- 40:7 And he was asking the eunuchs of Pharaoh who were with him in custody with his lord, saying, "Why are your faces gloomy today?"
- 41:10 Pharaoh was angry against his servants, and he set us in custody in the house of the chief jailer, both me and the chief baker.
- 42:17 And he set them in custody three days.
- 42:19 If peaceable you are, let one brother of you be held fast in the custody; but you, proceed and lead away the buying of your grain-dole,
- 42:30 "The human, the lord of the land, has spoken to us hard things, and set us in custody as spying out the land.