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Lexicon :: Strong's G4172 - polis

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πόλις
Transliteration
polis (Key)
Pronunciation
pol'-is
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from the same as πόλεμος (G4171), or perhaps from πολύς (G4183)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:516,906

Strong’s Definitions

πόλις pólis, pol'-is; probably from the same as G4171, or perhaps from G4183; a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size):—city.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x

The KJV translates Strong's G4172 in the following manner: city (164x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x
The KJV translates Strong's G4172 in the following manner: city (164x).

  1. a city

    1. one's native city, the city in which one lives

    2. the heavenly Jerusalem

      1. the abode of the blessed in heaven

      2. of the visible capital in the heavenly kingdom, to come down to earth after the renovation of the world by fire

    3. the inhabitants of a city

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πόλις pólis, pol'-is; probably from the same as G4171, or perhaps from G4183; a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size):—city.
STRONGS G4172:
πόλις, πολισεως, ἡ (πέλομαι, to dwell (or rather denoting originally 'fullness,' 'throng'; allied with Latin pleo, plebs, etc.; cf. Curtius, p. 79 and § 374; Vanicek, p. 499; (otherwise Fick 1:138))) (from Homer down), the Sept. chiefly for עִיר, besides for קִרְיָה, שַׁעַר (gate), etc., a city;
a. universally, Matthew 2:23; Mark 1:45; Luke 4:29; John 11:54; Acts 5:16, and very often in the historical books of the N. T.; κατά τήν πόλιν, through the city (A. V. in; see κατά, II. 1 a.), Acts 24:12; κατά πόλιν, κατά πόλεις, see κατά, II. 3a. α., p. 328a; opposed to κῶμαι, Matthew 9:35; Matthew 10:11; Luke 8:1; Luke 13:22; to κῶμαι καί ἀγροί, Mark 6:56; ἡ ἰδίᾳ πόλις, see ἴδιος, 1b., p. 297a; πόλις with the genitive of a person one's native city, Luke 2:4, 11; John 1:44(45); or the city in which one lives, Matthew 22:7; Luke 4:29; Luke 10:11; Acts 16:20; Revelation 16:19; Jerusalem is called, on account of the temple erected there, πόλις τοῦ μεγάλου βασιλέως, i. e. in which the great King of Israel, Jehovah, has his abode, Matthew 5:35; Psalm 47:2 (Psalms 48:2), cf. Tobit 13:15; also ἅγια πόλις (see ἅγιος, 1 a., p. 7a) and ἡ ἠγαπημένη, the beloved of God, Revelation 20:9. with the genitive of a gentile noun: Δαμασκηνῶν, 2 Corinthians 11:32; Ἐφεσίων, Acts 19:35; τῶν Ἰουδαίων, Luke 23:51; τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Matthew 10:23; Σαμαρειτῶν, Matthew 10:5; with the genitive of a region: τῆς Γαλιλαίας, Luke 1:26; Luke 4:31; Ιουδα, of the tribe of Judah, Luke 1:39; Λυκαονίας, Acts 14:6; Κιλικίας, Acts 21:39; τῆς Σαμαρείας, John 4:5; Acts 8:5. As in classical Greek the proper name of the city is added — either in the nominative case, as πόλις Ἰόππη, Acts 11:5; or in the genitive, as πόλις Σοδομων, Γομορρας, 2 Peter 2:6; Θυατείρων, Acts 16:14.
b. used of the heavenly Jerusalem (see Ἱεροσόλυμα, 2), i. e.
α. the abode of the blessed, in heaven: Hebrews 11:10, 16; with Θεοῦ ζῶντος added, Hebrews 12:22; ἡ μελλουσα πόλις, Hebrews 13:14.
β. in the visions of the Apocalypse it is used of the visible capital of the heavenly kingdom, to come down to earth after the renovation of the world: Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:14ff; 22:14; ἡ πόλις ἡ ἅγια, Revelation 22:19; with Ἱερουσαλήμ καινή added, Revelation 21:2.
c. πόλις by metonymy, for the inhabitants: Matthew 8:34; Acts 14:21; πᾶσα ἡ πόλις, Matthew 21:10; Acts 13:44; ἡ πόλις ὅλῃ, Mark 1:33; Acts 21:30; πόλις μερισθεῖσα καθ' ἑαυτῆς, Matthew 12:25.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
47:2; 48:2
Matthew
2:23; 5:35; 8:34; 9:35; 10:5; 10:11; 10:23; 12:25; 21:10; 22:7
Mark
1:33; 1:45; 6:56
Luke
1:26; 1:39; 2:4; 2:11; 4:29; 4:29; 4:31; 8:1; 10:11; 13:22; 23:51
John
1:44; 4:5; 11:54
Acts
5:16; 8:5; 11:5; 13:44; 14:6; 14:21; 16:14; 16:20; 19:35; 21:30; 21:39; 24:12
2 Corinthians
11:32
Hebrews
11:10; 11:16; 12:22; 13:14
2 Peter
2:6
Revelation
3:12; 16:19; 20:9; 21:2; 21:14; 22:14; 22:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4172 matches the Greek πόλις (polis),
which occurs 1,208 times in 1,043 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 21 (Gen 4:17–Gen 44:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12 - and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - So the LORD replied, "If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?" He replied, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men - both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom - surrounded the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - Then the two visitors said to Lot, "Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said, "Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it's just a little one. Let me go there. It's just a little place, isn't it? Then I'll survive."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - "Very well," he replied, "I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham's request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - Then she died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth - before all who entered the gate of his city -

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18 - as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron's city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I'll say, "Give me a little water to drink from your jug."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - They blessed Rebekah with these words: "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - Jacob's sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:29 - They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32 - Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place; the name of his city was Avith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39 - When Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place; the name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35 - They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh's authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities. In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household, "Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

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