ΠΟΛΙΧΝΗΝ, πολιχνην
POLICHNĒN, polichnēn
Sounds Like: po-LICK-nen
Translations: town, a town, city, a city, village, a village
From the root: ΠΟΛΙΧΝΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a small town or village, often implying a settlement that is smaller than a major city (πόλις). It is used to describe a place where people live, typically with some infrastructure but not the scale of a metropolis. In the provided examples, it refers to a specific small town or settlement.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4173 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΛΙΧΝΗ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΠΟΛΙΧΝΗΝ — according to the town, according to a town, by the town, by a town, through the town, through a town, down to the town, down to a town
- ΠΟΛΙΧΝΑΣ — small cities, towns, villages
- ΠΟΛΙΧΝΗ — small city, a small city, town, a town
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