φυλάσσω phulassō

Greek word for “to keep/guard” · Strong’s G5442 · used 31 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

φυλάσσω; to guard, watch;

Senses in the lexicon

• to keep/guard: protect (15)
• to keep/guard: observe (11)
• to keep/guard: guard (5)

How it is translated

Glosses given for phulassō in context, with how often each is used:

• keeping 3
• keep 3
• will keep 2
• guarded 2
• guard 2
• do keep 2
• have kept 2
• kept 2
• shall keep 2
• do keep yourselves 1
• keep from 1
• watching over 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 11 (2), John 12 (2), Acts 21 (2), 2 Timothy 1 (2), Matthew 19 (1), Mark 10 (1), Luke 2 (1), Luke 8 (1), Luke 12 (1), Luke 18 (1)

Forms

• ἐφύλαξα 3
• φυλάσσοντες 2
• φυλάσσεσθε 2
• φυλάξει 2
• φυλάσσεσθαι 2
• φυλάσσων 2
• φύλαξον 2
• φυλάξαι 2
• φυλάσσειν 2
• φυλάσσῃ 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with phulassō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• παραθήκη parathēkē “deposit” 3
• νόμος nomos “law” 4
• νεότης neotēs “youth” 2
• κρίνω krinō “to judge” 3
• ὅτε hote “when” 3
• κόσμος kosmos “world” 3
• στρατιώτης stratiōtēs “soldier” 2
• φυλακή phulakē “prison/watch” 2
• ἑαυτοῦ heautou “themself” 3
• ὑπάρχω huparchō “be already” 2
• φημί phēmi “to assert” 2
• ἀπολλύω apolluō “to destroy” 2

Key verses

The verses using phulassō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 11:28 — But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
• Luke 12:15 — And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• John 17:12 — While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that…
• Acts 28:16 — And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept…
• 2 Thessalonians 3:3 — But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
• 1 Timothy 5:21 — I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing…
• 1 Timothy 6:20 — O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
• 2 Timothy 1:12 — For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that…
• 2 Timothy 1:14 — That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
• 2 Peter 2:5 — And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
• 2 Peter 3:17 — Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
• Jude 1:24 — Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.