noun · feminine

politeias

Greekπολιτεία (politeia)

Strong’sG4174

citizen body, citizenship

stem politei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

citizenship1×commonwealth1×

What it means

** πολιτεία, -ας, ἡ

(< πολιτεύω), [in LXX: II Mac 4:11 6:23 8:17 13:14, III Mac 3:21, 23, IV Mac 3:20 8:7 17:9*;]

1. citizenship: Ac 22:28 (III Mac 3:21, 23, Hdt., Xen., a1.).

2. government, administration (Aristoph., Dem., al.).

3. a commonwealth: Eph 2:12.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4174 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpol-ee-ti'-ah

citizenship; concretely, a community

Fromfrom G4177 ("polity");

King Jamescommonwealth, freedom.

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	politeias	politeiais
object accusative	politeian1×πολιτείαν	politeiain
direct address vocative	politeiar	politeiair
of, belonging to genitive	politeiau1×πολιτείας	politeiaiu
to, for dative	politeia	politeiai

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

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

politeia 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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

politeian“citizenship”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 22:28“citizenship”apokrinita de tos chiliarchos; Mis polleu kefalaieu tan politeian houtan ktema. tos de Paulos fēate; Mis de kai gennimē.“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

politeiau“commonwealth”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Ephesians 2:12“commonwealth”hoti ave to kairo ekeino chōris Christou, apallotriirētois tau politeiau tou Israēl kai xenois taiu diathēkaiu tau epangeliau, elpian mē echarōtois kai atheois en to kosmo.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.