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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κουστωδίαG2892
Pronunciationkoustōdía
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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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 Ita guard1×Matthew 27:65
guard1×Matthew 27:66
guards1×Matthew 28:11
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Usage map
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First aligned rowMatthew 27:65
Aligned rows3
Books represented1
Matthew3
Source forms
κουστωδίας2xkoustōdiasMatthew 27:66, Matthew 28:11
κουστωδίαν1xkoustōdianMatthew 27:65
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular2xMatthew 27:66, Matthew 28:11
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular1xMatthew 27:65
Evidence Summary
Greek word. A guard or detachment of soldiers stationed to maintain watch and custody over a place
Strong'sG2892
Lexical occurrences3 versesGreek text appearances3 timesWord forms2 forms3 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
guard
Extended definitionSource: 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 corpusGreek 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 27:65Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κουστωδίαν·koustwdian
a guard
Read verseMatthew 27:66Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
κουστωδίας.koustwdiav
a guard
Read verseMatthew 28:11Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
κουστωδίαςkoustwdiav
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 patterns2Aligned forms3Case patternGenitive (2)Number patternSingular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · FeminineMatt 27:66 · Matt 28:112×
Accusative · Singular · FeminineMatt 27:651×
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