Strong's Concordance

Greek
G5442

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Original: φυλάσσω

Transliteration: phulasso (phulassō)

Phonetic: foo-las'-so

Thayer Definition:

to guard
1. to watch, keep watch
2. to guard or watch, have an eye upon: lest he escape
3. to guard a person (or thing) that he may remain safe
  1. lest he suffer violence, be despoiled, etc. to protect
  2. to protect one from a person or thing
  3. to keep from being snatched away, preserve safe and unimpaired
  4. to guard from being lost or perishing
  5. to guard one's self from a thing
4. to guard, i.e. care for, take care not to violate
  1. to observe
to observe for one's self something to escape
1. to avoid, shun flee from
2. to guard for one's self (i.e. for one's safety's sake) so as not to violate, i.e. to keep, observe (the precepts of the Mosaic law)

Origin: probably from G5443 through the idea of isolation

TDNT entry: 12:56,1

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: Probably from G5443 through the idea of isolation ; to watch, that is, be on guard (literally or figuratively); by implication to preserve. obey, avoid: - beware, keep (self), observe, save. Compare G5083.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (26x)

And Keepest (1x)

Beware (1x)

For To Keep (1x)

Have (1x)

Have I Kept (2x)

Have I Observed (1x)

He Was Kept (1x)

Keep (6x)

Keeping (1x)

Kept (2x)

Of (1x)

Saved (1x)

They Keep (1x)

Thou Observe (1x)

To Be Kept (1x)

To Keep (3x)

Ware (1x)

All Occurrences

Matthew 19:20

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

Mark 10:20

And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

Luke 2:8

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Luke 8:29

(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.)

Luke 18:21

And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.

Acts 7:53

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

Acts 12:4

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Acts 16:4

And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.

Acts 21:24

Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

Acts 21:25

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Acts 22:20

And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.

Acts 23:35

I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.

Romans 2:26

Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

Galatians 6:13

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

1 Timothy 5:21

I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

2 Timothy 1:12

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

2 Timothy 1:14

That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

2 Timothy 4:15

Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

2 Peter 2:5

And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 Peter 3:17

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

1 John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Jude 1:24

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

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Greek
G5442