Greek noun (feminine) · G4174
πολιτεία
politeiapol-ee-ti'-ah
citizenship; government, administration (Aristoph., Dem., al.).; a commonwealth
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: politeía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4174is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4174
citizenship; concretely, a community
The King James renders it: commonwealth, freedom.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
politeia is rendered "citizenship; government, administration (Aristoph., Dem., al.).; a commonwealth". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "citizenship".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 22:28“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
Acts 22:28πολιτείαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: citizenship, and government, administration (Aristoph., Dem., al.)., and a commonwealth.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| citizenshipAct.22:28 (3 Mac, ll. with, Hdt., Xen., a1.). | Tagged as
| WhereActs 22:28“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen… |
| government, administration (Aristoph., Dem., al.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| a commonwealthEph.2:12.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereEphesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πόλις | polis | city | Uses163 |
| πολίτης | polites | citizen | Uses4 |
| πολιτάρχης | politarches | city authority | Uses2 |
| πολιτεύομαι | politeuomai | be a citizen | Uses2 |
| πολίτευμα | politeuma | citizenship | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πολιτείαν1
- πολιτείας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Acts
one use
“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
- πολιτείανpoliteiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: citizenship
Ephesians
one use
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- πολιτείαςpoliteiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commonwealth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.