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Words
ἀρχιδεσμοφύλαξ G91047
- Home gloss
- chief jailer
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- keeper of the prison / keeper of the prison / chief jailer
- Note
- Of δεσμοφύλαξ "jailer" (Acts 16:23, 27, 36). In Gen 39:21–23 for the Masoretic version's "officer of the round-house"
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (5)
- 39:21 And the Lord was with Joseph, and poured mercy over him, and gave him grace before the chief jailer.
- 39:22 And the chief jailer gave the prison through the hand of Joseph, and all those led away, as many as were in the prison, and all as many as they do there.
- 39:23 The chief jailer was coming to know nothing on account of him; for all were through the hand of Joseph, in that the Lord was with him; and as many as he was doing, the Lord prospers in his hands.
- 40:3 And he set them in custody with the chief jailer, into the prison, into the place where Joseph had been led away.
- 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.