ΠΟΛΕΩΝ, πολεων
POLEŌN, poleōn
Sounds Like: po-LEH-ohn
Translations: of cities
From the root: ΠΟΛΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a city or a town, a populated place with buildings and inhabitants. As a genitive plural, it indicates possession or origin, meaning 'belonging to cities' or 'from cities'. It is used to describe something related to multiple urban centers.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4172 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 55:1
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Chronicles — 19:7
- 2 Esdras — 22:44
- Judith — 1:14
- 1 Maccabees — 5:68, 10:71, 11:8
- Isaiah — 14:31, 17:1
- Jeremiah — 2:28, 7:34, 11:13, 17:26
- Matthew — 14:13
- Mark — 6:33
- Luke — 19:17, 19:19
- Acts of the Apostles — 5:16
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:127, 6:128
- Book 2 — 10:240
- Book 4 — 4:69, 5:91, 5:94, 7:173, 8:220
- Book 5 — 1:54, 1:71, 1:74, 1:115, 8:254
- Book 6 — 1:8, 13:319, 14:343
- Book 7 — 5:105, 5:108
- Book 8 — 5:142, 8:228, 10:247, 12:294
- Book 9 — 1:5
- Book 12 — 6:169, 6:175, 6:179
- Book 13 — 1:16, 5:149, 5:165, 8:246
- Book 14 — 5:87, 10:188, 11:275, 12:309
- Book 15 — 8:297, 9:330
- Book 16 — 6:170, 11:361
- Book 18 — 1:8, 8:293, 9:379
- Book 19 — 1:2, 5:291
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 1:21, 12:5, 13:7, 17:14, 22:22
- Book Two — 18:4, 20:13
- Book Three — 9:6
- Book Four — 3:15, 4:38, 8:45, 9:45
- Book Seven — 1:7, 5:48, 8:116, 11:1
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 25:32, 25:33
- Numbers — 32:38, 35:2, 35:4, 35:5, 35:8
- Deuteronomy — 2:34, 2:35, 3:4, 3:5, 3:7, 4:42, 12:5, 13:12, 15:7, 16:5, 17:2, 18:6, 19:5, 19:11, 20:15
- Joshua — 19:8, 21:42
- Judges — 20:14, 20:15, 20:42
- 1 Samuel — 6:18, 15:5, 18:6, 27:5
- 2 Samuel — 2:1, 8:8, 8:11, 10:12
- 1 Kings — 8:37
- 2 Kings — 23:8
- 1 Chronicles — 4:33, 19:7, 26:27
- 2 Chronicles — 6:28, 12:4, 14:5, 15:8, 20:4, 21:3, 23:2, 31:19
- Nehemiah — 12:37, 12:44
- Judith — 1:14, 6:7
- 1 Maccabees — 5:22, 5:68, 10:71, 11:2, 11:8, 14:17, 15:31
- 2 Maccabees — 10:10
- Sirach — 9:13
- Isaiah — 14:31, 17:1
- Jeremiah — 2:28, 11:13, 17:26
- Baruch — 2:23
- Ezekiel — 16:7, 25:9, 29:12, 30:7
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 11:39, 13:6
- Amos — 2:2
- Nahum — 2:7
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
- ΠΟΛΕΣΙΝ — to cities, for cities, in cities, among cities
- ΠΟΛΕΣΙΝΤΑΣ — cities, (in) cities, (to) cities
- ΠΟΛΕΩ — of the city, of a city
- 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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