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Strong's #1200 - δεσμοφύλαξ
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- a keeper of a prison, a jailor
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δεσμο-φύλαξ [ῠ], ακος, ὁ,
gaoler, BGU 1138.12 (i B. C.), Acts 16:23, Luc. Tox. 30, Artem. 2.60.
δεσμοφύλαξ, δεσμοφυλακος, ὁ (δεσμός and φύλαξ, like θησαυροφύλαξ (cf. with 100 (95))), a keeper of a prison, a jailer: Acts 16:23, 27, 36. (Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 1; Lucian, Tox. 30; (Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 3, 60; others); ἀρχιδεσμοφύλαξ, Genesis 39:21-23.)
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*† δεσμο -φύλαξ , -κος , ὁ
(δεσμός , φύλαξ ),
a prison-keeper, gaoler: Acts 16:23; Acts 16:27; Acts 16:36 (cf. ἀρχιδ -, Genesis 39:21).†
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P Petr III. 28 (e) verso (b).5 (iii/B.C.) παρεδόθη δὲ Παῶτι δεσμοφύλακι , ";but he was handed over to Paos the gaoler,"; P Lille I. 7.14 (iii/B.C.) οὗτος δὲ ἀπήγαγέν με εἰς τὸ αὖθι δεσμωτήριον , εἶπεν τῶι δεσμοφύ (λακι ) δι᾽ ἣν αἰτίαν συνέσχημαι . BGU IV. 1138.12 ff. (B.C. 19–8) (= Chrest. II. p. 123) ἐφάνη τῷ Κασίωι ὄντ (ι ) ἐντ ̣α ̣υ ̣ͅθ ̣α , τὸν τῆ (ς ) Σάιεως δεσμοφύλακ (α ) Χαιρήμονα καλέσαι , κα ̣ι ̣̣ ἐ ̣λ ̣ε ̣ν ̣χ ̣ο ̣(μένου ) α ̣ὐ ̣το (ῦ ) πρὸς ε ̣̀λ ̣ε ̣ν ̣χο (ν ) τοῦ Ἰσχυρίω (νος ), ὃ ἠδίκησ ̣ε ̣ν ̣, ἐμαρτύρησ (εν ) ὁ δεσμοφύλαξ Χ ̣α ̣ι ̣ρήμω (ν ) περὶ το (ῦ ) παραδεδόσθαι αὑτῷ τὸν Παπία [ν κτλ . Cf. P Flor I. 2.75 (A.D. 265) where a certain person is nominated εἰς δεσμο [φυλακίαν τῆς ἐν τῇ ] μ ̣ητροπόλει εἱρκτῆς : on δεσμοφυλακία as a tax for the support of public prisons, see the editors’ introduction to P Fay 53.
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