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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #4177 - πολίτης

Transliteration

polítēs

Phonetics

pol-ee'-tace

Origin

from (G4172)

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TDNT

6:516,906

Definition

Thayer's

a citizen
1. the inhabitant of any city or country
2. the association of another in citizenship
  1. a fellow citizen, fellow countryman

Thayer
Strong
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Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 1121 ‑ בֵּן (bane); 5997 ‑ עָמִית (aw‑meeth'); 7453 ‑ רֵיעַ (ray'‑ah, ray'‑ah);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (3)

Luke

Acts

NAS (5)

Luke

Acts

Hebrews

HCS (4)

Luke

Acts

Hebrews

BSB (4)

Luke

Acts

Hebrews

ESV (3)

Luke

Acts

WEB (3)

Luke

Acts

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

πολῑτ-ης, ου, ὁ,

Ion. πολιήτης (q.v.),

citizen, freeman, Il. 15.558, 22.429, Od. 7.131, Pi. O. 5.16, etc.; π. ἀγαθός Th. 3.42, Pl. Grg. 517c; κακός E. Ba. 271; πόλεως, πόλεων π., Antipho 5.78, And. 1.5; ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται S. Ant. 806 (lyr.); π. ὁρίζεται τῷ μετέχειν κρίσεως καὶ ἀρχῆς Arist. Pol. 1275a22 .

2. fellow-citizen (cf. πολιήτης ), Sapph. Supp. 1.14, etc.; Κάδμου π. A. Th. 1; Ἀθηναίων π. And. 1.139; ὑμῶν Lys. 20.12; σός Pl. Prt. 339e: and by a Com. metaph., οἴνου π. ὢν κρατίστου Amphis 36 .

II Adj. belonging to, connected with one's city or country, θεοὶ πολῖται, = πολιοῦχοι, A. Th. 253; π. δῆμος, = ὁ τῆς πόλεως, Ar. Ec. 574 .

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

πολίτης , -ου , ὁ

(< πόλις ),

[in LXX chiefly for H7453;]

1. a citizen: c. gen. loc., Luke 15:15, Acts 21:39.

2. a fellow-citizen: c. gen. pers., Luke 19:14, Hebrews 8:11 (LXX). †

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

P Oxy VII. 1033.15 (A.D. 392) ὡς προείπαμεν, ";as aforesaid"; (Ed.), and the Christian letter of a slave to his master regarding the illness of his mistress—P Oxy VI. 939.25 (iv/A.D.) ἔδοξεν μὲν γὰρ ὡς προεῖπον ἀνεκτότερον ἐσχηκέναι ἀνακαθεσ ̣θ ̣εῖσα, ";for she seems, as I said before, to be in a more tolerable state, in that she has sat up"; (cf. Luke 7:15). Cf. from the inscrr. Syll 239 (= .3 543).38 (B.C. 214) τοῖς μέντοι κατηγορεῖν τούτων μέλλουσιν προείπατε, ὅπως μὴ φανῶσιν κτλ., and Kaibel 947.10 καὶ [σεμνῶ ]ν εἰμ [ι ] προφήτης ὧν γε προεῖπα θεῶν. See s.v. προλέγω.

List of Word Forms

πολιται πολίται πολῖται πολίταις πολίτας πολιτην πολίτην πολιτης πολίτης πολιτων πολιτών πολιτῶν politai polîtai politen politēn políten polítēn polites politēs polítes polítēs politon politôn politōn politō̂n

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