noun · masculine
politos
Strong’sG4177
a citizen
stem polit-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 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.
πολίτης, -ου, ὁ
(< πόλις), [in LXX chiefly for רֵעַ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4177 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpol-ee'-tace
a townsman
Fromfrom G4172;
King Jamescitizen.
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 πολιήτης (which see), citizen, freeman, Refs 8th c.BC+; πόλεως, πόλεων π., Refs 5th c.BC+
2 fellow-citizen (compare πολιήτης), Refs 7th c.BC+: and by a Comedy texts metaphorically, οἴνου π. ὢν κρατίστου Refs 4th c.BC+
II adjective belonging to, connected with one's city or country, θεοὶ πολῖται, ={πολιοῦχοι}, Refs 4th c.BC+; π. δῆμος, ={ὁ τῆς πόλεως}, 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 | politos1×πολίτης | politois1×πολῖται |
| object accusative | politon1×πολίτην | politoin |
| direct address vocative | politor | politoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | politou | politoiu1×πολιτῶν |
| to, for dative | polito | politoi |
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
polito 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
politos“citizen”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 21:39… Tarsevos tau Kilikiau, ouk asēmau polau politos; domō de su, epitrepasar mi lalara …… Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I …
politon“fellow citizen”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 8:11“fellow citizen”kai ouk mē didaskaleia hekastos ton politon autou kai hekastos ton adelfon autou, …… longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of …
politois“citizens”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 19:14“citizens”tois de politois autou misale auton, kai apostelala presbeian …But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him …
politoiu“citizens”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 15:15“citizens”kai poreuirantos kollita heno toiu politoiu tau chōrau ekeinau, kai pempata auton …So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his …