noun · feminine
politeias
Strong’sG4174
citizen body, citizenship
stem politei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
** 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*;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect πολῑτ-ηΐη, ἡ, condition and rights of a citizen, citizenship, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, grants of citizenship, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 the daily life of a citizen, Refs 5th c.BC+; life, living, ἡ ἐν Βοιωτίᾳ π. NT+2nd c.BC+
3 concrete, body of citizens, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 = Latin civitas in geographical sense, Refs 3rd c.AD+
II government, administration, Refs 5th c.BC+; course of policy, τῇ π. καὶ τοῖς ψηφίσμασι Refs 4th c.BC+: plural, acts of policy, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 tenure of public office, πᾶσαν π. ἐπιφανῶς ἐκτελέσαι Refs; ἐν τοῖς τῆς π. χρόνοις Refs 3rd c.BC+
III civil polity, constitution of a state, Refs 5th c.BC+; form of gouernment, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν ἀρίστην πολιτεύεσθαι π.Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 especially republican government, free common-wealth, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὅταν δὲ τὸ πλῆθος πρὸς τὸ κοινὸν πολιτεύηται συμφέρον, καλεῖται π.Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | 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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
politeian“citizenship”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 22:28… tos chiliarchos; Mis polleu kefalaieu tan politeian houtan ktema. tos de Paulos fēate; …… paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was …
politeiau“commonwealth”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Ephesians 2:12… kairo ekeino chōris Christou, apallotriorēntois tau politeiau tou Israēl kai xenois taiu diathēkaiu …… separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the …