Luke 22:33:12Luke.22.33.W12TAB
φυλακὴν
phylakên
“prison”
- Transliteration
- phy-la-KÊN
- Extended
- pʰy-lah-KEHN
- IPA
- /pʰy.laˈkɛːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- prison
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Alphabet Analysis
| Phi | ph — as in phone (f) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
phy-la-KÊN
- sentence
ho de EI-pen au-TO KY-ri-e me-TA sou HE-toi-MOS EI-mi kai eis phy-la-KÊN kai eis THA-na-ton po-REU-es-thai
Exegesis
Two coordinated prepositional phrases, kai eis phylakēn kai eis thanaton {καὶ εἰς φυλακὴν καὶ εἰς θάνατον | kaí eis phy-la-kḕn kaí eis thá-na-ton}, stand in parallel, forming a rhetorical gradation from imprisonment to death. The repeated kai ‘and’ heightens the breadth and extremity of the pledge. In translation, the core Greek word order is preserved in the formal rendering to retain emphasis on being “ready,” while the dynamic rendering slightly reshapes the coordination (“not only… but even…”) to capture the intensifying parallelism for contemporary readers.
Root and etymology
phylakēphi–upsilon–lambda–alpha–kappa–eta
“guard, watch, prison”
In context — Luke 22:33
But he said to Him, “Lord , I am ready to go with You, both into prison and into death.”
About this coordinate
Luke 22:33:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Luke 22:33, so the Greek word φυλακὴν (phylakên) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Luke.22.33.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Luke.22.33.W12.S1) and character.