2001 Translation

POLITŌN, politōn

Sounds Like: po-lee-TON

Translations: of citizens, of a citizen, of the citizens

From the root: ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the inhabitants of a city or state, specifically those who hold full rights and responsibilities as members of that community. It is used here in the genitive plural, indicating possession or relationship, often translated as 'of citizens' or 'belonging to citizens'.

Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine

Strong’s number: G4177 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 17:170
• Book Two — 17:170

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 1:51, 8:265, 10:342
• Book 8 — 14:370
• Book 10 — 1:23, 7:129
• Book 12 — 6:161, 7:323, 11:433
• Book 14 — 7:115, 8:151, 10:231, 16:484
• Book 15 — 7:264, 8:282, 8:290
• Book 19 — 1:20, 1:52, 1:123, 1:129, 2:174, 2:192, 2:209, 3:231
• Book 20 — 9:205

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 19:9
• Book Two — 6:10, 18:26
• Book Six — 5:36
• Book Seven — 2:12, 5:25, 8:12

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 10:43, 28:137, 40:200, 53:274, 65:346, 65:353

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 23:11
• 2 Maccabees — 4:5, 4:50, 5:8, 14:8, 15:30
• 3 Maccabees — 1:22
• Jeremiah — 36:23

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 15:15

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
• ΠΟΛΙΤΑΣ — citizen, a citizen
• 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
• ΠΟΛΙΤ‾Η‾ — citizen, a citizen, fellow citizen, a fellow citizen

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