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phulake

phulake {foo-lak-ay'}
Greek: noun feminine

Possible Definitions:
1) guard, watch
1a) a watching, keeping watch; 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

phulake {foo-lak-ay'}

Greek: noun feminine

from 5442;

Translated as:

prison (36 times)

watch (6 times)

imprisonment (2 times)

hold (1 time)

cage (1 time)

ward (1 time)

Total: 47 times

Strong's Number 5438

TDNT - 9:236,1280