KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Guard, watch, duty, an assigned division, or the place or body keeping watch. 2. Joined to a direction or object, toward or in relation to it. 3. Custody or confinement.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 40:3
Complete exact-word concordance
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captaine of the guard, into the prison, the place where Ioseph was bound.
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
And the captaine of the guard charged Ioseph with them, and he serued them, and they continued a season in warde.
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?
And he asked Pharaohs officers that were with him in the warde of his lords house, saying, wherefore looke ye so sadly to day?
1611 marginal noteHeb. are your faces euill?
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:
Pharaoh was wroth with his seruants, and put mee in warde, in the captaine of the guards house, both mee, and the chiefe Baker.
And he put them all together into ward three days.
And he put them all together into warde, three dayes.
1611 marginal noteHebr. gathered.
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Historical English dictionary sources
guard, prison.
in the phrases to us-ward.
