noun · neuter
politeumem
Strong’sG4175
a state, commonwealth
stem politeum-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
** πολίτευμα, -τος, τό
(< πολιτεύω), [in LXX: II Mac 12:7*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4175 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpol-it'-yoo-mah
a community, i.e. (abstractly) citizenship (figuratively)
Fromfrom G4176;
King Jamesconversation.
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
business of government, act of administration, Refs 4th c.BC+: more frequently in plural, measures of government or institutions, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔν τε τοῖς κατὰ τὴν πόλιν π. καὶ ἐν τοῖς Ἑλληνικοῖς both in my home and foreign policy, Refs 1st c.AD+; π. Refs 1st c.BC+
II the concrete of πολιτεία Refs, the government, π. ἐστὶν ἡ πολιτεία Refs 4th c.BC+; οἱ ἐν π. the citizens, Refs 4th c.BC+; π. ἀκέραια, σωφρονικά, Refs 1st c.BC+free republics, Refs 1st c.BC+; form of government, πολίτεομα (sic) εἶναι ἐν Χίῳ δῆμον Refs 4th c.BC+, cf. Decrees Attic dialect cited in Refs 1st c.AD+
III citizen rights, citizenship, ἀξίους τοῦ παρ᾽ ὑμῖν π. NT
IV concrete, body of citizens, τὸ π. τὸ Μιλησίων Refs 3rd c.BC+; souereign body, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV.2 corporate body of citizens resident in a foreign city, Καυνίων τὸ π. (at Sidon) Refs; τὸ π. τῶν Κρητῶν (in Egypt) Refs 2nd c.BC+
IV.2.b generally, corporate body, association, τὸ π. τῶν γυναικῶν Refs; τὸ π. τινός founded by a person, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 or object direct | politeumem1×πολίτευμα | politeumeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | politeumeu | politeumeiu |
| to, for dative | politeume | politeumei |
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
politeume 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
politeumem“citizenship”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Philippians 3:20nu gar tem politeumem en ouranoi huparchatō, ek hou kai …But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly …