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 Tephil
a keeping watch, ward, guard, Lk. 2:8; a place of watch, Rev. 18:2; a watch, guard, body of guards, Acts 12:10; ward, custody, imprisonment, 2 Cor. 6:5; 11:23; Heb.
to keep watch;, trans. to guard, watch, with a military guard, 2 Cor. 11:32; to keep in a condition of restraint, Gal. 3:23; to keep in a state of settlement or security, Phil. 4:7; 1 Pet. 1:5*