5442 - phulassó

Strong's Concordance

Original word: φυλάσσω
Transliteration: phulassó
Definition (short): guard
Definition (full): to guard, watch

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from a root phulak-
Definition: to guard, watch
NASB Translation: abstain (1), guard (8), guarded (1), guarding (1), guards (1), keep (5), keeping (2), keeps (1), kept (4), kept under guard (1), maintain (1), observe (2), preserved (1), protect (1), watching (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Probably from phule through the idea of isolation; to watch, i.e. Be on guard (literally of figuratively); by implication, to preserve, obey, avoid -- beward, keep (self), observe, save. Compare tereo.

see GREEK phule

see GREEK tereo

KJV: The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
NASB: The young man said to Him, "All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?"
KJV: And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
NASB: And he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth up."
KJV: And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
NASB: In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.
KJV: (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
NASB: For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.
KJV: When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
NASB: "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.