Strong's Concordance
Original word: φύλαξ
Transliteration: phulax
Definition (short): guards
Definition (full): a guard, keeper
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from phulassó
Definition: a guard, keeper
NASB Translation: guards (3).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries.
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References
KJV:
Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
NASB:
saying, "We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside."
KJV:
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
NASB:
On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.
KJV:
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
NASB:
When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.