πολίτης
politēs · citizen
Greek word · Strong’s number G4177 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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politēs (πολίτης) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “citizen”.
A fellow citizen.
How to say it
po·li·tēs
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Member of a city or people; countryman.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- citizen ×2
- citizens ×2
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 15:15
And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
- Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
- Acts 21:39
But Paul said, “I am a Jewish man, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
- Hebrews 8:11
And they will never teach, each his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest of them.