noun · neuter

politeumem

Greekπολίτευμα (politeuma)

Strong’sG4175

a state, commonwealth

stem politeum-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur

Translated as

citizenship1×

What it means

** πολίτευμα, -τος, τό

(< πολιτεύω), [in LXX: II Mac 12:7*;]

1. an act of administration.

2. a form of government.

3. = πολιτεία,

(a) citizenship: Phl 3:20 (R, txt.);

(b) community, commonwealth: Phl 3:20 (R, mg.; for exx. v. MM, xx).†

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.

Every form

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

politeumstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

politeumem“citizenship”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Philippians 3:20“citizenship”nu gar tem politeumem en ouranoi huparchatō, ek hou kai sōtēron apekdechenō kurion Iēsun Christon,But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,