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noun · masculine

sumpolitos

Greekσυμπολίτης (sumpolitēs)

Strong’sG4847

a fellow citizen

stem sumpolit-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

fellow citizens

What it means

* συν-πολίτης (Rec. σνμπ-), -ου, ὁ

a fellow-citizen: pl., σ. τ. ἁγίων, opp. to ξένοι κ. πάροικοι, Eph 2:19 (Eur.; C.I., 6446; condemned by Atticists; v. Rutherford, NPhr., 255 f.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4847 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsoom-pol-ee'-tace

a native of the same town, i.e. (figuratively) co-religionist (fellow-Christian)

Fromfrom G4862 and G4177;

King Jamesfellow- citizen.

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativesumpolitossumpolitoisσυμπολῖται
object accusativesumpolitonsumpolitoin
direct address vocativesumpolitorsumpolitoir
of, belonging to genitivesumpolitousumpolitoiu
to, for dativesumpolitosumpolitoi

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
sumpolitstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

sumpolito 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

sumpolitois“fellow citizens”subjectnominative plural

Ephesians 2:19“fellow citizens”ara oun ouketi avō xenois kai paroikois, alla avō sumpolitois toiu hagioiu kai oikeiois tou theou,Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,