What does φυλακτήριον (phylaktḗrion) mean in the Bible?
φυλακτήριον (phylaktḗrion): Small parchment strips inscribed with Torah portions, worn as visible badges of religious observance and piety.
Greek · G5440
φυλακτήριον
Phylactery
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φυλακτήριονG5440
Pronunciationphylaktḗrion
What does φυλακτήριον (phylaktḗrion) mean in the Bible?
φυλακτήριον (phylaktḗrion): Small parchment strips inscribed with Torah portions, worn as visible badges of religious observance and piety.
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How does the BSB render G5440?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include phylacteries (1).
Where does φυλακτήριον (phylaktḗrion) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 23:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itphylacteries1×Matthew 23:5
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First aligned rowMatthew 23:5
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Matthew1
Source forms
φυλακτήρια1xphylaktēriaMatthew 23:5
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural1xMatthew 23:5
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Small parchment strips inscribed with Torah portions, worn as visible badges of religious observance and piety.
Strong'sG5440
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
phylactery
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Small parchment strips inscribed with Torah portions, worn as visible badges of religious observance and piety.
1an outpost, fortification (Thuc., al.).
2a safeguard (Plat.).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 23:5Noun Accusative Plural Neuter
φυλακτήριαfulakthria
a phylactery, an amulet
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 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternPlural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Plural · NeuterMatt 23:51×
Word Origins
φυλακτήριον is built from this root: