φυλακή

fulakhv fulakhv,
fulakh'",
hJ (
fulavssw), from Homer down, the Septuagint for tr,m,v]mi, rm;v]mi, hr;F;m' (a prison), al,K, (enclosure, confinement), guard, watch, i. e. a. in an active sense, a watching, keeping watch:
fulavssein
fulakav", to keep watch, (often in the Greek writings from Xenophon, an. 2, 6, 10, etc.; Plato legg. 6, p. 758 d. down; (cf.
fulakav"
e[cein, etc. from Homer (Iliad 9, 1 etc.) on); often also in the Septuagint for t/rm;v]mi rm'v;). b. like the Latin custodia and more frequently the plural custodiae (see Klotz, Hdwrbch. (or Harpers' Latin Dict.) under the word), equivalent to persons keeping watch, a guard, sentinels: (here A. V. ward) (and very often in secular authors from Homer down). c. of the place where captives are kept, a prison: ; ,(39),43f; ,(28); ; ; ; ,; ; f,17; ,; ; ; (here, as in , A. V. imprisonment); ; ; (twice; rendered in A. V. hold and cage (R. V. hold)); (Herodotus 3, 152; Thucydides 3, 34; Plutarch, others; the Septuagint for hr;F;m', al,K, tyBe, and al,K,h' tyBe, rm;v]mi);
bavllein or
tiqevnai
tina
eij" (
thvn)
fulakhvn or
ejn (
th'/)
fulakhv: ; (R G, others,
ajpevqeto); ; ; ,; ; ; (here
paradidovnai
eij"
fulakhvn); ; f,37; . d. of the time (of night) during which guard was kept, a watch i. e. the period of time during which a part of the guard were on duty, and at the end of which others relieved them. As the earlier Greeks divided the night commonly into three parts (see Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 4), so, previously to the exile, the Israelites also had three watches in a night; subsequently, however, after they became subject to Rome, they adopted the Roman custom of dividing the night into four watches: ;
ejn
th'/
deutevra/,
trivth/, ;
tetavrth/, ; . Cf. Winer's RWB under the word Nachtwache; (McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word Night-watch; B. D. under the phrase, Watches of Night).*