Definition

a guard-case, i.e. "phylactery" for wearing slips of Scripture texts

Etymology

neuter of a derivative of G5442 (φυλάσσω);

Word family

• φυλάσσω phylássō

How the KJV renders it

• phylactery

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.