φυλακή

The 8 distinct written forms G5438 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5438, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• φυλασσω phylássō G5442 to guard

Shares the same root

• φυλακτηριον phylaktḗrion G5440 phylactery
• φυλαξ phýlax G5441 guard

Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

The same Greek word φυλακη appears 105 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 95 verses in 21 books.

105

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

95

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

21 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 21 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 40:3 φυλακή
• Exodus 14:24 φυλακή
• Leviticus 24:12 φυλακή
• Numbers 1:53 φυλακή
• Judges 7:19 φυλακή
• 1 Samuel 11:11 φυλακή
• 2 Samuel 20:3 φυλακή
• 1 Kings 2:3 φυλακή
• 2 Kings 11:5 φυλακή
• 1 Chronicles 9:19 φυλακή
• 2 Chronicles 7:6 φυλακή
• Ezra 13:25 φυλακή

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5438) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 95. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 40:3 φυλακή He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
• Genesis 40:4 φυλακή The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
• Genesis 40:7 φυλακή He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
• Genesis 41:10 φυλακή Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
• Genesis 42:17 φυλακή He put them all together into custody three days.
• Genesis 42:19 φυλακή If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
• Genesis 42:30 φυλακή "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
• Exodus 14:24 φυλακή It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
• Leviticus 24:12 φυλακή They put him in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be declared to them.
• Numbers 1:53 φυλακή But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
• Numbers 3:7 φυλακή They shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• Numbers 3:8 φυλακή They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• Numbers 3:25 φυλακή The charge of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
• Numbers 3:28 φυλακή According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
• Numbers 3:31 φυλακή Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
• Numbers 3:32 φυλακή Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.
• Numbers 3:36 φυλακή The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
• Numbers 3:38 φυλακή Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
• Numbers 4:28 φυλακή This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
• Numbers 4:32 φυλακή and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden.
• Numbers 8:26 φυλακή but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their duties."
• Numbers 9:19 φυλακή When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh, and didn't travel.
• Numbers 9:23 φυλακή At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept the charge of Yahweh, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
• Numbers 15:34 φυλακή They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
• Numbers 18:3 φυλακή They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
• Numbers 18:4 φυλακή They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.
• Numbers 18:5 φυλακή You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
• Numbers 31:30 φυλακή Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tent of Yahweh.
• Numbers 31:47 φυλακή even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
• Judges 7:19 φυλακή So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
• Judges 16:25 φυλακή It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. They called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them. They set him between the pillars:
• 1 Samuel 11:11 φυλακή It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
• 2 Samuel 20:3 φυλακή David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
• 1 Kings 2:3 φυλακή and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
• 1 Kings 22:27 φυλακή and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
• 2 Kings 11:5 φυλακή He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
• 2 Kings 11:6 φυλακή A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall you keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
• 2 Kings 11:7 φυλακή The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king.
• 2 Kings 17:4 φυλακή The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
• 2 Kings 25:27 φυλακή It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
• 2 Kings 25:29 φυλακή and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
• 1 Chronicles 9:19 φυλακή Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry.
• 1 Chronicles 9:27 φυλακή They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.
• 1 Chronicles 12:30 φυλακή Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
• 1 Chronicles 23:32 φυλακή and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
• 1 Chronicles 26:16 φυλακή To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.
• 2 Chronicles 7:6 φυλακή The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness endures for ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
• 2 Chronicles 8:14 φυλακή He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
• 2 Chronicles 13:11 φυλακή and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also [set they] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with the lamps of it, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.
• 2 Chronicles 16:10 φυλακή Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5438) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.