“a guard,” (Latin, custodia; Eng., “custodian”), is used of the soldiers who “guarded” Christ’s sepulchre, Mat 27:65-66<\/span>; Mat 28:11<\/span>, and is translated “(ye have) a guard,” “the guard (being with them),” and “(some of) the guard,” RV, AV, “… a watch,” “(setting a) watch,” and “… the watch.” This was the Temple guard, stationed under a Roman officer in the tower of Antonia, and having charge of the high priestly vestments. Hence the significance of Pilate’s words “Ye have a guard.” See WATCH. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Latin, speculator, primarily denotes “a lookout officer,” or “scout,” but, under the emperors, “a member of the bodyguard;” these were employed as messengers, watchers and executioners; ten such officers were attached to each legion; such a guard was employed by Herod Antipas, Mar 6:27<\/span>, RV, “a soldier of his guard” (AV, “executioner”). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “a guard, keeper” (akin to phulasso, “to guard, keep”), is translated “keepers” in Act 5:23<\/span>; in Act 12:6<\/span>, Act 12:19<\/span>, RV, “guards” (AV, “keepers”). See KEEPER. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) In Act 28:16<\/span>, some mss. have the sentence containing the word stratopedarches, “a captain of the guard.” See CAPTAIN. (2) In Phi 1:13<\/span>, the noun praitorion, the “praetorian guard,” is so rendered in the RV (AV, “palace”). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to guard, watch, keep” (akin to A, No. 3), is rendered by the verb “to guard” in the RV (AV, “to keep”) of Luk 11:21<\/span>; Joh 17:12<\/span>; Act 12:4<\/span>; Act 28:16<\/span>; 2Th 3:3<\/span>; 1Ti 6:20<\/span>; 2Ti 1:12<\/span>, 2Ti 1:14<\/span>; 1Jo 5:21<\/span>; Jud 1:24<\/span>. In Luk 8:29<\/span>, “was kept under guard,” RV (AV, “kept”). See BEWARE, KEEP, OBSERVE, PRESERVE, SAVE, WARE OF, WATCH. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a strengthened form of No. 1 (dia, “through,” used intensively), “to guard carefully, defend,” is found in Luk 4:10<\/span> (from the Sept. of Psa 91:11<\/span>), RV, “to guard” (AV, “to keep”). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a military term, “to keep by guarding, to keep under guard,” as with a garrison (phrouros, “a guard, or garrison”), is used, (a) of blocking up every way of escape, as in a siege; (b) of providing protection against the enemy, as a garrison does; see 2Co 11:32<\/span>, “guarded.” AV, “kept,” i.e., kept the city, “with a garrison.” It is used of the security of the Christian until the end, 1Pe 1:5<\/span>, RV, “are guarded,” and of the sense of that security that is his when he puts all his matters into the hand of God, Phi 4:7<\/span>, RV, “shall guard,” In these passages the idea is not merely that of protection, but of inward garrisoning as by the Holy Spirit; in Gal 3:23<\/span> (“were kept in ward”), it means rather a benevolent custody and watchful guardianship in view of worldwide idolatry (cp. Isa 5:2<\/span>). See KEEP. <\/p>\n Guard (Noun and Verb) “a guard,” (Latin, custodia; Eng., “custodian”), is used of the soldiers who “guarded” Christ’s sepulchre, Mat 27:65-66; Mat 28:11, and is translated “(ye have) a guard,” “the guard (being with them),” and “(some of) the guard,” RV, AV, “… a watch,” “(setting a) watch,” and “… the watch.” This was the … Continue reading “Guard (Noun and Verb)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"