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ἀσφαλίζω

Strong’s: G805

Associated OET lemmas: ἀσφαλίζω

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: σφάλλω · ἀσφάλεια · ἀσφαλής · ἀσφαλῶς

Sense 1: to make secure, to be guarded

Semantic entry: 21.11

Semantic domains: Danger, Risk, Safe, Save

Subdomains: Safe, Free from Danger

Definition: to cause something to be secure in the sense of something which could not be tampered with or opened

MAT 27:64: RV MAT 27:64 · LV MAT 27:64 · Read together MAT 27:64

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OET-RV MAT 27:64

64 so you should command that the tomb be secured until the third day in case someone steals his body and then tells the people that he has come alive again—that would be a worse deception than his initial teachings.”

OET-LV MAT 27:64

64 Therefore command the tomb to _be _secured until the third day, lest the apprentices/followers having _come may _steal him and they _may _say to _the people:
He _was _raised from the dead, and the last deception will _be worse than the first.

MAT 27:65: RV MAT 27:65 · LV MAT 27:65 · Read together MAT 27:65

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OET-RV MAT 27:65

65 “Well you all guard it,” answered Pilatos, “and keep it secure as you say.”

OET-LV MAT 27:65

65 And the Pilatos was _saying to _them:
You _all _are _having a_guard, be _going secure it as you _all _have _known.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 27:64–66 · LV MAT 27:64–66 · Read together MAT 27:64–66

Sense 2: to fasten, to tie

Semantic entry: 18.12

Semantic domains: Attachment

Subdomains: Fasten, Stick To

Definition: to fasten something securely

Notes: It is possible that in RV ACT 16:24 · LV ACT 16:24 · Read together ACT 16:24 τὸ ξύλον designates ‘stocks,’ namely, two pieces of wood through which the feet could be placed so as to make a prisoner immobile (see 6.21: ξύλον).

ACT 16:24: RV ACT 16:24 · LV ACT 16:24 · Read together ACT 16:24

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OET-RV ACT 16:24

24 Because of that, he threw them into the inner cell and locked their feet in stocks.

OET-LV ACT 16:24

24 who having _received such charge, throw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet of _them in the stocks.