Genesis 40:3
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
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Ward
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2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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Genesis
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מִשְׁמָר
mishmâr · mish-mawr'
12 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (figuratively); also (as observed) a usage (abstractly), or an example (concretely)
Strong's KJV usage: diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 40:3Strong's last: Nehemiah 12:25
Open full H4929 profile →מִשְׁמֶרֶת
mishmereth · mish-mer'-reth
6 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party
Strong's KJV usage: charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 20:3Strong's last: Isaiah 21:8
Open full H4931 profile →ὑμᾶς
hymâs · hoo-mas'
3 times translated as this KJV form436 total Strong's occurrences
you (as the objective of a verb or preposition)
Strong's KJV usage: :--ye, you (+ -ward), your (+ own).
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 1:12Strong's last: Ephesians 3:2
Open full G5209 profile →ἡμᾶς
hēmâs · hay-mas'
2 times translated as this KJV form177 total Strong's occurrences
us
Strong's KJV usage: :--our, us, we.
Strong's first: Ephesians 1:19Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:9
Open full G2248 profile →θεός
theós · theh'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1,359 total Strong's occurrences
a deity, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very
Strong's KJV usage: :--X exceeding, God, god(-ly, -ward).
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 3:4Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 3:4
Open full G2316 profile →πρός
prós · pros
1 times translated as this KJV form702 total Strong's occurrences
a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e. pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of, i.e. near to; usually with the accusative case, the place, time, occasion, or respect, which is the destination of the relation, i.e. whither or for which it is predicated)
Strong's KJV usage: :--about, according to , against, among, at, because of, before, between, (where-)by, for, X at thy house, in, for intent, nigh unto, of, which pertain to, that, to (the end that), X together, to (you) -ward, unto, with(-in).
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 1:8Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 1:8
Open full G4314 profile →φυλακή
phylakḗ · foo-lak-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
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
Strong's KJV usage: :--cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 12:10Strong's last: Acts 12:10
Open full G5438 profile →מוּל
mûwl · mool
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
properly, abrupt, i.e. a precipice; by implication, the front; used only adverbially (with prepositional prefix) opposite
Strong's KJV usage: (over) against, before, (fore-) front, from, (God-) ward, toward, with.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 18:19Strong's last: Exodus 18:19
Open full H4136 profile →סוּגַר
çûwgar · soo-gar'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
an inclosure, i.e. cage (for an animal)
Strong's KJV usage: ward.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 19:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 19:9
Open full H5474 profile →פְּקִדֻת
pᵉqiduth · pek-ee-dooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
supervision
Strong's KJV usage: ward.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 37:13Strong's last: Jeremiah 37:13
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H4929
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
H4929
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
H4929
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
H4929
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
H4929
And he put them all together into ward three days.
H4136
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
H4929
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
H4929
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
H4931
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
H4931
And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
H4931
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
no direct Strong's tag
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
H4929
To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
H4929
To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
H4929
And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.
H4929
And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.
H4929
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
H4931
And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
H4931
And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
no direct Strong's tag
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
H4931
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
H6488
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
H5474
And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
G5438
When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
G5209
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
English meaning and historical usage.
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ward
WARD, in composition, as in toward, homeward, is the Saxon weard, from the root of Latin
WARD, verb transitive
1. To guard; to deep in safety; to watch.
Whose gates he found fast shut, he living wight to ward the same--
[In this sense, ward is obsolete, as we have adopted the French of the same word, to guard. We now never apply ward to the thing to be defended, but always to the thing against which it is to be defended. We ward off a blow or dagger, and we guard a person or place.]
2. To defend; to protect.
Tell him it was a hand that warded him from thousand dangers. [Obs. See the remark, supra.]
3. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside any thing mischievous that approaches.
Now wards a falling blow, now strikes again.
The pointed javlin warded off his rage.
It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
[This is the present use of ward To ward off is now the more general expression, nor can I, with Johnson, think it less elegant.]
WARD, verb intransitive
1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.
2. To act on the defensive with a weapon.
She drove the stranger to no other shift, than to ward and go back.
And on their warding arms light bucklers bear.
WARD, noun
1. Watch; act of guarding.
Still when she slept, he kept both watch and ward
2. Garrison; troops to defend a fort; as small wards left in forts. [Not in use.]
3. Guard made by a weapon in fencing.
For want of other ward he lifted up his hand his front to guard.
4. A fortress; a strong hold.
5. One whose business is to guard, watch and defend; as a fire-ward.
6. A certain district, division or quarter of a town or city, committed to an alderman. There are twenty six wards in London.
7. Custody; confinement under guard. Pharaoh put his butler and baker in ward Genesis 40:3.
8. A minor or person under the care of a guardian. See Blackstones chapter on the rights and duties of guardian and ward
9. The state of a child under a guardian.
I must attend his majestys commands, to whom I am now in ward
10. Guardianship; right over orphans.
It is convenient in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemens children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
11. The division of a forest.
12. The division of a hospital.
13. A part of a lock which corresponds to its proper key.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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