προφυλακή
outpost, watch
Where this word appears
Every passage where προφυλακή appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 12:42 προφυλακή It is a watch kept to the Lord, so that he should bring them out of the land of Egypt; that very night is a watch kept to the Lord, so that it should be to all the children of Israel to their generations.
- Exodus 12:42 προφυλακή It is a watch kept to the Lord, so that he should bring them out of the land of Egypt; that very night is a watch kept to the Lord, so that it should be to all the children of Israel to their generations.
- Numbers 32:17 προφυλακή and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
- Ezra 14:16 προφυλακή
- Ezra 14:17 προφυλακή
- Ezra 17:3 προφυλακή
- Ezekiel 26:8 προφυλακή He shall kill your daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against you, and build forts around you, and carry a rampart round against you, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against you.
- Ezekiel 38:7 προφυλακή Be you prepared, prepare yourself, you, and all your multitude that is assembled with you, and you shall be to me for a guard.
- Nahum 2:6 προφυλακή The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,
About this word
About this word
προφυλακή (prophylakḗ), “outpost, watch,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 9 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →