Greek noun (masculine) · G4177
πολίτης
politespol-ee'-tace
a citizen; a fellow-citizen
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: polítēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4177is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4177
a townsman
The King James renders it: citizen.
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
polites is rendered "a citizen; a fellow-citizen". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a citizen".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 15:15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
Luke 15:15πολιτῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a citizen, and a fellow-citizen.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a citizenwith genitive loc., Luk.15:15, Act.21:39. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 15:15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country… |
| a fellow-citizen | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say… |
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 |
| πολιτεία | politeia | citizenship | Uses2 |
| πολιτάρχης | politarches | city authority | Uses2 |
| πολιτεύομαι | politeuomai | be a citizen | Uses2 |
| πολίτευμα | politeuma | citizenship | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- πολῖται1
- πολίτην1
- πολίτης1
- πολιτῶν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Luke
two uses
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
- πολιτῶνpolitonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: citizens
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
- πολῖταιpolitainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: the citizens
Acts
one use
But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
- πολίτηςpolitesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a citizen
Hebrews
one use
No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
- πολίτηνpolitennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: comrade
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.