5438 - phulaké

Strong's Concordance

Original word: φυλακή
Transliteration: phulaké
Definition (short): prison
Definition (full): a guarding, guard, watch

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from phulassó
Definition: a guarding, guard, watch
NASB Translation: guard (1), imprisonment (1), imprisonments (2), prison (34), prisons (3), time of the night (1), watch (4).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From phulasso; a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively -- cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch.

see GREEK phulasso

KJV: Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
NASB: "Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
KJV: For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
NASB: For when Herod had John arrested, he bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.
KJV: And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
NASB: He sent and had John beheaded in the prison.
KJV: And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
NASB: And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.
KJV: And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
NASB: "But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed.