STRONGS G1200:
δεσμοφύλαξ,
-κος,
ὁ, (
δεσμός and
φύλαξ, like
θησαυροφύλαξ [cf. Winer's Grammar 100 (95)]),
a keeper of a prison, a jailer:
Acts 16:23,
27,
36. (Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 1; Lucian, Tox. 30; [Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 3, 60; others];
ἀρχιδεσμοφύλαξ,
Genesis 39:21-23.)
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