φυλακτήριον
phylaktḗrion
“a guard-case, i.e. "phylactery" for wearing slips of Scripture texts”
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Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
a guard-case, i.e. "phylactery" for wearing slips of Scripture texts
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
the station of a guard or watch; a preservative, safeguard; hence, a phylactery or amulet, worn about the person; from which circumstance the word is used in the NT as a term for the Jewish Tephillin or prayer-case, which took their rise from the injunction in Deut. 6:8; 11:18; Mt. 23:5*
Translated in KJV as
phylactery
Etymology
neuter of a derivative of G5442 (φυλάσσω);
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