Strong's #5438: phulake (pronounced foo-lak-ay')

from 5442; 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.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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phulakē

1) guard, watch

1a) a watching, keeping watch

1a1) to keep watch

1b) persons keeping watch, a guard, sentinels

1c) of the place where captives are kept, a prison

1d) of the time (of night) during which guard was kept, a watch, i.e. a period of time during which part of the guard was on duty, and at the end of which others relieved them. As the earlier Greeks divided the night commonly into three parts, so, previous to the exile, the Israelites also had three watches in a night; subsequently, however, after they became subject to the Romans, they adopted the Roman custom of dividing the night into four watches

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G5442

Citing in TDNT: 9:241, 1280

Usage:

This word is used 48 times:

 

Matthew 5:25: "to the officer, and thou be cast into prison."
Matthew 14:3: "and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother"
Matthew 14:10: "John in the prison."
Matthew 14:25: "And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto"
Matthew 18:30: "and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt."
Matthew 24:43: "goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched,"
Matthew 25:36: "me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me."
Matthew 25:39: "sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?"
Matthew 25:43: "me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited"
Matthew 25:44: "sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"
Mark 6:17: "bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother"
Mark 6:27: "him in the prison,"
Mark 6:48: "and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto"
Luke 2:8: "abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night."
Luke 3:20: "he shut up John in prison."
Luke 12:38: "in the second watch, or come in the"
Luke 12:38: "in the third watch, and find them so, blessed"
Luke 12:58: "cast thee into prison."
Luke 21:12: "to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and"
Luke 22:33: "thee, both into prison, and to death."
Luke 23:19: "was cast into prison.)"
Luke 23:25: "murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered"
John 3:24: "not yet cast into prison."
Acts 5:19: "night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth,"
Acts 5:22: "not in the prison, they returned, and told,"
Acts 5:25: "whom ye put in prison are standing in the"
Acts 8:3: "and women committed them to prison."
Acts 12:4: "had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers"
Acts 12:5: "was kept in prison: but prayer was made"
Acts 12:6: "the keepers before the door kept"
Acts 12:6: "the keepers before the door kept"
Acts 12:10: "the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron"
Acts 12:17: "him out of the prison. And he said, Go show"
Acts 16:23: "upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep"
Acts 16:24: "into the inner prison, and made their feet fast"
Acts 16:27: "awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out"
Acts 16:37: "and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out"
Acts 16:40: "they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and"
Acts 22:4: "and delivering into prisons both men and women."
Acts 26:10: "saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the"
2 Corinthians 6:5: "In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors,"
2 Corinthians 11:23: "stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft."
Hebrews 11:36: "moreover of bonds and imprisonment:"
1 Peter 3:19: "unto the spirits in prison;"
Revelation 2:10: "some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have"
Revelation 18:2: "is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit,"
Revelation 18:2: "of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and"
Revelation 20:7: "shall be loosed out of his prison,"