ΠΟΛΕΣΙΝ, πολεσιν
POLESIN, polesin
Sounds Like: PO-le-sin
Translations: to cities, for cities, in cities, among cities
From the root: ΠΟΛΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a city or a town. In this form, it is used to indicate the indirect object of an action, often translated with prepositions like 'to', 'for', 'in', or 'among', indicating location or direction towards multiple cities.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4172 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Chronicles — 13:2
- 2 Esdras — 10:14, 17:73, 20:38, 21:1, 21:3, 21:20
- Judith — 1:9
- 1 Maccabees — 1:51, 1:54, 1:58, 5:27, 11:60, 14:10
- Job — 6:20
- Isaiah — 37:26, 40:9, 44:26
- Jeremiah — 11:6, 30:17, 38:23, 39:44, 40:10, 40:13, 41:7, 47:10, 51:17, 51:21
- Matthew — 11:1
- Luke — 4:43
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 2:41
- Book 4 — 5:90, 8:215
- Book 11 — 6:222, 6:291
- Book 12 — 3:119, 8:336
- Book 14 — 10:265, 15:395
- Book 15 — 9:311, 9:327
- Book 16 — 2:13, 5:146
- Book 18 — 9:312
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 50:4
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 29:144
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 19:25, 41:35, 41:48
- Leviticus — 25:34
- Numbers — 21:25, 21:31, 32:17, 32:26
- Deuteronomy — 3:19, 12:17, 12:18, 12:21, 14:20, 14:26, 14:27, 14:28, 15:22, 16:14, 16:18, 17:8, 19:1, 24:14, 26:12, 28:52, 28:55, 28:57, 31:12
- Joshua — 11:21, 21:42
- Judges — 11:26
- 1 Samuel — 30:29
- 2 Samuel — 2:3, 12:31
- 1 Kings — 15:20
- 2 Kings — 17:9, 17:24, 17:26, 17:29, 23:5, 23:19
- 1 Chronicles — 9:2, 13:2
- 2 Chronicles — 1:14, 9:25, 10:17, 11:23, 17:2, 17:7, 17:9, 17:19, 19:5, 21:11, 31:1, 31:6, 33:14, 34:6
- Ezra (Beta) — 2:70, 3:1, 4:10, 10:14
- Nehemiah — 7:73, 8:1, 8:15, 10:37, 11:1, 11:3
- Judith — 1:9
- 1 Maccabees — 1:51, 1:54, 1:58, 3:8, 5:27, 11:60, 14:10
- 3 Maccabees — 3:16
- Job — 6:20
- Isaiah — 37:26, 40:9, 44:26
- Jeremiah — 7:17, 11:6, 30:1, 38:23, 38:24, 39:44, 40:10, 40:12, 40:13, 41:7, 47:10, 51:17, 51:21
- Lamentations — 5:11
- Ezekiel — 35:4, 36:4
- Hosea — 11:6, 13:10
- Amos — 4:6
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- 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
- ΠΟΛΙΣ — city, a city, town, a town
- 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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