Original Word: ἀσφαλίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: asphalizó
Phonetic Spelling: (as-fal-id'-zo)
Short Definition: I make safe
Definition: I make safe (secure, fast).

Cognate: 805 asphalízō – properly, make safe (fast); used of securely fixing a prisoner's feet in wooden stocks (Ac 16:24). See 804 (asphalēs).

STRONGS NT 805: ἀσφαλίζω

ἀσφαλίζω: 1 aorist passive infinitive ἀσφαλισθῆναι; 1 aorist middle ἠσφαλισάμην; (ἀσφαλής); especially frequent from Polybius down; "to make firm: to make secure against harm; passive to be made secure": Matthew 27:64 (ὁ τάφος) (Buttmann, 52 (46)); middle, properly, to make secure for oneself or for one's own advantage (often in Polybius): Matthew 27:65f; to make fast τούς πόδας εἰς τό ξύλον, Acts 16:24 (Winers Grammar, § 66, 2 d.; Buttmann, § 147, 8).

Strong's Greek 805
4 Occurrences

ἀσφαλίσασθε — 1 Occ.
ἀσφαλισθῆναι — 1 Occ.
ἠσφαλίσαντο — 1 Occ.
ἠσφαλίσατο — 1 Occ.

Matthew 27:64 V-ANP
GRK: κέλευσον οὖν ἀσφαλισθῆναι τὸν τάφον
NAS: for the grave to be made secure until
KJV: that the sepulchre be made sure until
INT: Command therefore to be secured the tomb

Matthew 27:65 V-AMM-2P
GRK: κουστωδίαν ὑπάγετε ἀσφαλίσασθε ὡς οἴδατε
NAS: go, make it [as] secure as you know how.
KJV: go your way, make [it] as sure as
INT: a guard Go make [it as] secure as you know [how]

Matthew 27:66 V-AIM-3P
GRK: δὲ πορευθέντες ἠσφαλίσαντο τὸν τάφον
NAS: And they went and made the grave
KJV: the sepulchre sure, sealing
INT: moreover having gone they made secure the tomb

Acts 16:24 V-AIM-3S
GRK: τοὺς πόδας ἠσφαλίσατο αὐτῶν εἰς
NAS: prison and fastened their feet
KJV: their feet fast in the stocks.
INT: the feet fastened of them in

4 Occurrences