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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Ward

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

31exact KJV occurrences 23Old Testament 8New Testament 16books containing the word 10mapped Strong's IDs 29occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

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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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where ward appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 55 verses Exodus 11 verses Leviticus 11 verses Numbers 11 verses 2 Samuel 11 verses 1 Chronicles 53 verses Nehemiah 53 verses Psalms 11 verses Isaiah 11 verses Jeremiah 11 verses Ezekiel 11 verses Acts 11 verses 2 Corinthians 33 verses Ephesians 22 verses 1 Thessalonians 11 verses 2 Peter 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4931
מִשְׁמֶרֶת

mishmereth · mish-mer'-reth

6 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Samuel 20:3Strong's last: Isaiah 21:8

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GreekG4314
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).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 1:8Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 1:8

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GreekG5438
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

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HebrewH5474
סוּגַר

çûwgar · soo-gar'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an inclosure, i.e. cage (for an animal)

Strong's KJV usage: ward.

Strong's first: Ezekiel 19:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 19:9

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Psalms 40:5
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.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.