noun · feminine
polisas
Strong’sG4172
Polis (in Neapolis)
stem polis-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πόλις, -εως, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly and very freq. for עִיר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4172 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect also πτόλις (found sometimes in Trag. etc., see at {πτόλις}), ἡ: Epic dialect forms, accusative singular πόληα Refs 8th c.BC+; genitive πόλιος or πτόλιος, Refs 8th c.BC+ P.(scanned ?~X ?~X ?~X ¯ Refs 8th c.BC+: Ionic dialect forms, genitive πόλεως Refs 6th c.BC+; dative mostly πόλει, but πόλῑ Refs 5th c.BC+; accusative πόλῑς Refs: Doric dialect genitive singular πόλιος Refs 2nd c.BC+; dative singular πόλι Refs 4th c.BC+; dative plural πολίεσι Refs 5th c.BC+; πολίεσσι Foed.Lac. cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; Cretan dialect πόλιθι Refs: Aeolic dialect genitive πόλιος Refs 7th c.BC+ disyllable (as also in Comedy texts, except Refs 5th c.BC+; Attic dialect dual πόλη Refs 5th c.BC+:—city, Refs 8th c.BC+; π. ἄκρη, ἀκροτάτη, ={ἀκρόπολις}, the citadel, Refs 8th c.BC+; which at Athens also was in early times called simply π., while the rest of the city was called ἄστυ, καλεῖται.. ἡ ἀκρόπολις μέχρι τοῦδε ἔτι ὑπ᾽ Ἀθηναίων π. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν πόλει in treaties, Refs 5th c.BC+; so Ἰνάχου π. the citadel of Argos, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Cadmea at Thebes, Refs 1st c.BC+; of Alexandria, Refs; π. ἡ ἁγία, of Jerusalem, LXX the city of.., Refs 5th c.BC+; also in apposition, ἡ Μένδη π. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 one's city or country, πόθι τοι π. ἠδὲ τοκῆε; Refs 8th c.BC+
3 ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως city governor, Refs 3rd c.BC+; στρατηγὸς πόλεως Refs 1st c.BC+; στρατηγὸς κατὰ πόλιν, = Latin praetor urbanus, Refs 1st c.BC+
II country, as dependent on and called after its city, ἀνθρώπων οἳ τήνδε π. καὶ γαῖαν ἔχουσιν Refs 8th c.BC+; especially of islands peopled by men, Αῆμνον π. Θόαντος Refs 8th c.BC+; π. Αἴαντος, ={Σαλαμίς}, Refs 5th c.BC+
III community or body of citizens (opposed to ἄστυ, their dwellings, Refs 8th c.BC+ denotes the town), ὧν π. ἀνάριθμος ὄλλυται Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 state or community, ξύμπασα π. κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀπηύρα Refs 8th c.BC+; especially free state, republic, Refs 5th c.BC+state affairs, government, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν π. φεύγειν shun one's public duties, Refs 4th c.BC+; assembly of citizens, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 rights of citizenship, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV πόλιν παίζειν, a game resembling backgammon, Refs 5th c.BC+, perhaps alluded to in Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskrit pūr, Lithuanian pilìs 'fortrees'.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | polisas | polisais |
| object accusative | polisan1×Πόλιν | polisain |
| direct address vocative | polisar | polisair |
| of, belonging to genitive | polisau | polisaiu |
| to, for dative | polisa | polisai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
polisa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
polisan“Polis”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 16:11“Polis”… Samothrakan, ta de epeiarōnta eis Nean Polisan,… straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to Neapolis.