noun · masculine
politos
Greekπολίτης (politēs)
Strong’sG4177
a citizen
stem polit-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
Words built on the same stem
Where it appears
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
politos“citizen”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 21:39“citizen”legata de tos Paulos; Mis anthrōpos men amō Ioudaios, Tarsevos tau Kilikiau, ouk asēmau politau politos; demō de su, epitrepasar mi lalara pros ton laon.But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
politon“fellow citizen”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 8:11“fellow citizen”kai ouk mē didaskaleia hekastos ton politon autou kai hekastos ton adelfon autou, legarōtos; Gnōskasar ton kurion, hoti pantois oidali min apo mikrou heōs megou autoiu.No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
politois“citizens”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 19:14“citizens”tois de politois autou misale auton, kai apostelala presbeian opisō autou legarōtois; Ouk thelanō houton basilara epi nin.But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
politoiu“citizens”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 15:15“citizens”kai poreuiratos kollita heno toiu politoiu tau chōrau ekeinau, kai pempata auton eis toin agroin autou boskarō choiroin;So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.