phylassō · guard, keep

What it means

phylassō (φυλάσσω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “guard, keep”.

Keep, obey; also guard, protect.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To watch over something or someone.
2. To shield from evil, or beware of something.
3. To obey what is commanded.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• guard ×12
• keep ×8
• I have kept ×3
• keeping ×2
• I guarded them ×1
• guarding ×1
• guards ×1
• keeps ×1
• preserved ×1
• who guarded ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×6
• John×3
• Acts×8
• Romans×1
• Galatians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×2
• 2 Timothy×3
• 2 Peter×2
• 1 John×1
• Jude×1

• Matthew 19:20

  The young man says to him, “All these things I have kept; what do I still lack?”

• Mark 10:20

  And he said to him, “Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth.”

• Luke 2:8

  And there were shepherds in that same region, living out in the fields and keeping watch by night over their flock.

• Luke 8:29

  For he was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it had seized him, and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserted places.

• Luke 11:21

  When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are in peace;

• Luke 11:28

  But he said, “Rather, happy are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

• Luke 12:15

  And he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourselves from all greed, because even when someone has abundance, his life is not from his possessions.”

• Luke 18:21

  And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.”

• John 12:25

  Whoever holds his life dear loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

• John 12:47

  And if anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

• John 17:12

  When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

• Acts 7:53

  you who received the law as ordained by angels and did not keep it.”

• Acts 12:4

  When he had seized him, he also put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of four soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

• Acts 16:4

  And as they were going through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem, for them to keep.

• Acts 21:24

  Take these men, purify yourself with them, and pay the expenses for them so that they may shave their head, and all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk in order, keeping the law.

• Acts 21:25

  But as for the nations who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should guard themselves against both what has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what is strangled and sexual immorality.”

• Acts 22:20

  And when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I also was standing by and approving and guarding the garments of those who were killing him.’

• Acts 23:35

  he said, “I will hear you when your accusers also arrive.” And he ordered him to be kept under guard in the praetorium of Herod.

• Acts 28:16

  And when we entered into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

• Romans 2:26

  So if the uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

• Galatians 6:13

  For not even those who are being circumcised themselves keep the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:3

  But the Lord is faithful, who will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

• 1 Timothy 5:21

  I solemnly charge you before God and the Messiah Jesus and the chosen angels that you keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing out of partiality.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from the profane empty chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge,

• 2 Timothy 1:12

  for which reason I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

• 2 Timothy 1:14

  Guard the good deposit entrusted to you through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

• 2 Timothy 4:15

  You too guard yourself against him, for he strongly opposed our words.

• 2 Peter 2:5

  and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

• 2 Peter 3:17

  You then, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and lose your own firm footing.

• 1 John 5:21

  Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

• Jude 1:24

  Now to the one who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glory without defect with great joy,