{"def":{"short":"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","long":["guard, watch",["a watching, keeping watch",["to keep watch"],"persons keeping watch, a guard, sentinels","of the place where captives are kept, a prison","of the time (of night) during which guard was kept, a watch i.e., a period of time during which part of the guard was on duty, and at the end of which others relieved them"]]},"deriv":"from G5442","pronun":{"ipa":"fy.lɑˈke","ipa_mod":"fju.lɑˈke̞","sbl":"phylakē","dic":"foo-la-KAY","dic_mod":"fyoo-la-KAY"},"see":["G5442"],"comment":"As the earlier Greeks divided the night commonly into three parts, so, previous to the exile, the Israelites also had three watches in a night; subsequently, however, after they became subject to Rome, they adopted the Roman custom of dividing the night into four watches."}