What does κουστωδία (koustōdía) mean in the Bible?
κουστωδία (koustōdía): A guard or detachment of soldiers stationed to maintain watch and custody over a place
Greek · G2892
κουστωδία
Guard
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κουστωδία G2892
Pronunciation koustōdía
What does κουστωδία (koustōdía) mean in the Bible?
κουστωδία (koustōdía): A guard or detachment of soldiers stationed to maintain watch and custody over a place
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2892?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include a guard (1), guard (1), guards (1).
Where does κουστωδία (koustōdía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 27:65. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (3).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It a guard 1× Matthew 27:65
guard 1× Matthew 27:66
guards 1× Matthew 28:11
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 27:65
Aligned rows 3
Books represented 1
Matthew 3
Source forms
κουστωδίας 2x koustōdias Matthew 27:66, Matthew 28:11
κουστωδίαν 1x koustōdian Matthew 27:65
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 2x Matthew 27:66, Matthew 28:11
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Matthew 27:65
Evidence Summary
Greek word. A guard or detachment of soldiers stationed to maintain watch and custody over a place
Strong's G2892
Lexical occurrences 3 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 2 forms 3 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
guard
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
A guard or detachment of soldiers stationed to maintain watch and custody over a place
a guard: Mat.27:65-66 28:11.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 27:65 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κουστωδίαν· koustwdian
a guard
Read verse Matthew 27:66 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
κουστωδίας. koustwdiav
a guard
Read verse Matthew 28:11 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
κουστωδίας koustwdiav
a guard
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 3 Case pattern Genitive (2) Number pattern Singular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Matt 27:66 · Matt 28:11 2×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Matt 27:65 1×
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain