Definition

a jailer (as guarding the prisoners)

Etymology

from G1199 (δεσμόν) and G5441 (φύλαξ);

Word family

• δεσμόν desmón
• φύλαξ phýlax

How the KJV renders it

• jailor
• keeper of the prison

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.