ΠΟΛΙΤΑΣ, πολιτας
POLITAS, politas
Sounds Like: po-LEE-tas
Translations: citizen, a citizen
From the root: ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a citizen, an inhabitant of a city or state, or someone who belongs to a particular community. It is used to describe a person who has rights and responsibilities within a civic body. In the provided examples, it is used in the accusative plural, indicating the direct object of an action, and in the dative plural, indicating the indirect object or recipient of an action.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative or Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4177 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:44
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 55:1
Codex Sinaiticus
- Proverbs — 11:12
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 0:21
- Book 5 — 1:54, 8:247
- Book 7 — 11:291
- Book 9 — 5:99
- Book 12 — 2:54, 5:252, 6:162, 6:269
- Book 13 — 10:287, 14:385
- Book 14 — 10:226, 10:228, 10:234, 10:237, 10:240
- Book 15 — 10:375
- Book 17 — 9:239
- Book 19 — 1:42, 2:196
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ.
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.
- ΟΛΙΤΑΙ — citizens, fellow citizens, townsmen
- ΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ — of citizens
- ΠΟΛΙΤ — citizen, a citizen, fellow citizen, (of) citizens
- ΠΟΛΙΤΑΙ — citizens, fellow citizens, residents
- ΠΟΛΙΤΑΙΣ — (to) citizens, (to) fellow citizens
- ΠΟΛΙΤΗΝ — citizen, a citizen, fellow citizen
- ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ — citizen, a citizen, fellow citizen
- ΠΟΛΙΤΩ — to a citizen, for a citizen, with a citizen, by a citizen
- ΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ — of citizens, of a citizen, of the citizens
- ΠΟΛΙΤ‾Η‾ — citizen, a citizen, fellow citizen, a fellow citizen
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