noun · feminine

polias

GreekΠόλις (polis)

Strong’sG4172

Polis (in Neapolis)

stem poli-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Polis1×

What it means

πόλις, -εως, ἡ,

[in LXX chiefly and very freq. for עִיר;]

a city: Mt 2:23, Mk 1:45, Lk 4:29, Jo 4:8, al. mult.; opp. to κῶμαι (κ. καὶ ἀγροί), Mt 9:35 10:11, Mk 6:56, Lk 8:1 13:22; c. nom. propr. in appos. (cl.), Ac 11:5 16:14; c. id. in gen. appos. (Bl., § 35, 5), Ac 8:5, II Pe 2:6; gen., of the region, Lk 1:26 4:31, Jo 4:5; of the inhabitants, Mt 10:5, 23, Lk 23:51, Ac 19:35, II Co 11:32; c. gen. pers., of one's residence or native place, Mt 22:7, Lk 2:4, 11 4:29 10:11, Jo 1:45, Ac 16:20, Re 16:9; of Jerusalem: ἡ ἁγία π., Mt 4:5 27:53, Re 11:2; ἡ ἠγαπημένη, Re 20:19; π. τοῦ μεγάλου βασιλέως, Mt 5:35 (cf. Ps 47 (48):2); of the heavenly city in the Apocalyptic visions, Re 3:12 21:2, 10, 14 ff. 22:14, 19. By meton., of the inhabitants of a city: Mt 8:34 12:25 21:10, Mk 1:33, Ac 14:21 21:30.

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

Saidpol'-is

a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)

Fromprobably from the same as G4171, or perhaps from G4183;

King Jamescity.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	polias	poliais
object accusative	polian1×Πόλιν	poliain
direct address vocative	poliar	poliair
of, belonging to genitive	poliau	poliaiu
to, for dative	polia	poliai

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

polistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

polia 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

polian“Polis”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 16:11“Polis”Anagiratois oun apo Trōadau euthudromana eis Samothrakan, ta de epeiarōta eis Nean Polian,We sailed from Troas straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to Neapolis.