φυλακτήριον

From φῠλᾰ́σσω (phulássō, “to protect”).

φῠλᾰκτήρῐον • (phulaktḗrion) n (genitive φῠλᾰκτηρῐ́ου); 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]

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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.