Ancient Greek

Noun

φυλακτήριον • ‎(phulaktḗrion) n ‎(genitive φυλακτηρίου); second declension

1. Fortified, guarded outpost, garrison.
2. Safeguard, protection, amulet; phylactery
   • Bible, New Testament. Matthew 23:9:

     πάντα δὲ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν ποιοῦσιν πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις: πλατύνουσι γὰρ τὰ φυλακτήρια αὐτῶν καὶ μεγαλύνουσι τὰ κράσπεδα,^[1]

     But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders [of their garments],^[2]

Inflection

References

• φυλακτήριον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φυλακτήριον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φυλακτήριον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5440”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • guard-post idem, page 377.
  • outpost idem, page 582.
  • preservative idem, page 637.
  • protection idem, page 653.
  • safe-guard idem, page 730.
  • station idem, page 813.

1. ↑ New Testament, Westcott-Hort text, at Perseus Digital Library (retrieved 16 June, 2013)
2. ↑ New Testament, King James Version, at BibleGateway.com (retrieved 16 June, 2013)