2001 Translation

POLIS, polis

Sounds Like: POH-lis

Translations: city, a city, town, a town

From the root: ΠΟΛΙΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: The word 'polis' refers to a city or town, a populated center where people live and gather. In ancient contexts, it often implied a self-governing city-state, but in Koine Greek, it frequently refers simply to any significant urban settlement. It is used to denote the physical location and its inhabitants.

Inflection: Singular, Feminine, Nominative or Vocative

Strong’s number: G4172 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:114

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:20, 8:6

Codex Sinaiticus

• Joshua — 13:17
• Judges — 10:4
• 1 Chronicles — 11:5
• 2 Esdras — 12:3, 17:4
• Esther — 3:15, 8:12x
• Judith — 8:18
• 1 Maccabees — 5:46, 5:50, 6:1, 10:84, 14:20, 14:33, 15:4, 15:28, 15:30, 16:14
• 4 Maccabees — 7:4
• Psalms — 47:3, 86:3, 121:3, 138:20
• Proverbs — 10:15, 11:10, 18:11, 18:19
• Ecclesiastes — 9:14, 10:16
• Job — 6:10, 15:28
• Sirach — 10:3, 16:4, 31:24, 38:32
• Isaiah — 1:8, 1:21, 1:26, 17:9, 19:2, 19:18, 22:2, 24:10, 26:1, 27:3, 29:1, 32:13, 33:20, 36:15, 52:1, 60:14, 61:4, 62:12, 64:9
• Jeremiah — 4:7, 4:29, 6:6, 28:31, 31:15, 33:9, 37:18, 38:38, 39:24, 39:25, 39:28, 39:31, 41:2, 45:3, 45:17, 45:18, 45:23, 46:2, 51:2, 52:5, 52:7
• Lamentations — 0:1, 2:15
• Jonah — 3:3
• Nahum — 3:1
• Zephaniah — 2:15, 3:1
• Zechariah — 8:3, 8:21, 14:2
• Matthew — 5:14, 5:35, 8:34, 9:35, 10:23, 12:25, 21:10
• Mark — 1:33, 6:56
• Luke — 4:29, 13:22
• Acts of the Apostles — 8:40, 13:44, 16:12, 19:29, 21:30, 27:8
• 2 Peter — 2:6
• Revelation — 16:19, 17:18, 18:10, 18:16, 18:19, 18:21, 21:16, 21:18, 21:23
• Epistle of Barnabas — 16:5
• Shepherd of Hermas — 8:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:197, 26:237, 2:10, 10:116, 40:282
• Book Two — 2:10, 10:116, 40:282

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 6:125, 21:337
• Book 2 — 10:250
• Book 3 — 14:301
• Book 4 — 6:100, 7:161, 8:176, 8:200, 8:221, 8:310
• Book 5 — 1:29, 1:85, 2:140, 9:318, 11:357
• Book 6 — 2:19, 14:375
• Book 7 — 8:174
• Book 9 — 7:156
• Book 10 — 5:80, 7:106, 8:135, 11:247
• Book 11 — 2:27, 6:220
• Book 12 — 3:143, 8:341, 8:348
• Book 15 — 3:57, 9:325, 9:333, 9:339, 9:341, 11:410
• Book 16 — 2:38, 3:71
• Book 18 — 2:27, 9:311, 9:312
• Book 19 — 1:160, 2:192
• Book 20 — 10:237

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:25, 9:12, 14:6, 16:14, 17:19, 22:9, 32:14
• Book Two — 8:8, 10:5, 16:67, 17:12, 17:51, 18:6
• Book Three — 2:2, 3:2, 3:18, 5:14, 9:31
• Book Four — 1:2, 1:7, 1:10, 4:6, 10:34, 11:5, 11:33
• Book Five — 1:19, 1:21, 1:24, 2:21, 4:1, 4:16, 4:18, 5:44, 5:58, 6:6, 6:9, 9:51
• Book Six — 2:18, 3:36, 6:34, 9:14
• Book Seven — 3:3, 4:9, 4:12, 5:62, 6:38, 7:6, 8:124

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:10
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 25:5, 26:3, 56:21, 108:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 8:31, 9:37, 65:352

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 10:12, 19:20
• Exodus — 1:11
• Numbers — 21:26, 21:27, 35:5
• Deuteronomy — 2:36, 3:4, 21:3
• Joshua — 6:17, 6:24, 10:2, 11:19, 13:16, 14:15, 15:9, 15:15, 15:49, 15:54, 15:60, 18:14, 21:20, 21:41, 21:42
• Judges — 1:11, 1:27
• Ruth — 1:19
• 1 Samuel — 4:13
• 2 Samuel — 5:7, 5:9
• 1 Kings — 1:45, 16:18
• 2 Kings — 6:19, 11:20, 18:30, 24:10, 25:2, 25:4
• 1 Chronicles — 11:5
• 2 Chronicles — 15:6, 23:21
• Ezra (Alpha) — 2:18, 2:19, 2:20, 2:22
• Ezra (Beta) — 4:13, 4:15, 4:16, 4:19, 4:21
• Nehemiah — 2:3, 7:4
• Esther — 3:15, 8:12
• Judith — 8:18
• Tobit — 13:9
• 1 Maccabees — 5:46, 5:50, 6:1, 14:20
• 3 Maccabees — 4:3, 5:41
• 4 Maccabees — 7:4
• Psalms — 47:3, 86:3, 121:3
• Proverbs — 10:15, 11:10, 18:11, 18:19, 25:28
• Ecclesiastes — 9:14, 10:16
• Job — 6:10
• Sirach — 10:3, 16:4, 34:24, 38:32
• Isaiah — 1:8, 1:21, 1:26, 19:2, 19:18, 22:2, 24:10, 25:2, 26:1, 27:3, 29:1, 32:13, 33:20, 36:15, 52:1, 60:14, 62:12, 64:10
• Jeremiah — 4:29, 6:6, 17:25, 28:31, 31:15, 33:9, 37:18, 38:38, 39:24, 39:25, 39:28, 39:31, 41:2, 45:3, 45:17, 45:18, 45:23, 46:2, 52:5, 52:7
• Lamentations — 1:1, 2:15
• Ezekiel — 7:23, 9:9, 22:3, 24:6, 26:17, 33:21, 48:15
• Hosea — 6:8
• Amos — 5:3
• Jonah — 3:3
• Nahum — 3:1
• Zephaniah — 3:1, 3:2
• Zechariah — 8:3, 14:2

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 1 — 1:1
• Parable 9 — 12:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 5:14, 5:35, 8:34, 12:25, 21:10
• Mark — 1:33
• Luke — 4:29
• Acts — 13:44, 16:12, 19:29, 21:30, 27:8
• Revelation — 16:19, 17:18, 18:10, 18:16, 18:19, 18:21, 21:16, 21:18, 21:23

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΛΙΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΑΠΟΛΙ — city, a city, town, a town
• ἨΠΟΛΕΩΝ — of cities
• ΜΕΝΠΟΛΕΩΣ — (of) the city, (of) a city
• ΠΟΛΕ — of a city, of the city, of a town, of the town
• ΠΟΛΕΙ — (to) a city, (to) the city, (in) a city, (in) the city, (for) a city, (for) the city
• ΠΟΛΕΙΚΑΙ — to the city, for the city, a city
• ΠΟΛΕΙΣ — cities, a city
• ΠΟΛΕΙΤΟΝ — It's not clear what this word means. It could be garbled or badly misspelled. If it's a misspelling of 'πόλεων' (poleon), it would mean 'of cities'. If it's a misspelling of 'πολίτην' (politēn), it would mean 'citizen, a citizen'.
• ΠΟΛΕΣΙ — to cities, for cities, in cities
• ΠΟΛΕΣΙΝ — to cities, for cities, in cities, among cities
• ΠΟΛΕΣΙΝΤΑΣ — cities, (in) cities, (to) cities
• ΠΟΛΕΩ — of the city, of a city
• ΠΟΛΕΩΝ — of cities
• ΠΟΛΕΩΝΤΗΣ — of cities, cities
• ΠΟΛΕΩΣ — (of) a city, (of) the city, city, a city
• ΠΟΛΕΩΣΣΦΑΣ — unknown
• ΠΟΛΙ — city, a city
• ΠΟΛΙΕΙ — will make a city, will build a city, will found a city, will become a city, will be a citizen, will live as a citizen
• ΠΟΛΙΝ — city, a city
• ΠΟΛΙΝἨ — city, a city
• ΠΟΛΙΣΤΡΙΣΙ — (to) cities, (to) towns
• ΠΟΛΙΧΝΙΑ — small city, town, village, a small city, a town, a village
• ΠΟΛΙΧΝΙΟΝ — small city, a small city, town, a town, village, a village
• ΤΑΙΣΠΟΛΕΣΙΝ — to the cities, for the cities, in the cities
• ΤΗΣΠΟΛΕΩΣ — of the city, of a city
• ΤΗΣΠΟΛΙΑΣ — of the city, of a city

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