Strong’s definition
a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively
KJV gloss list in the source
cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch
Derivation recorded by Strong
from G5442 (φυλάσσω);
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