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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 63 times in 55 verses in 'Eze' in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Eze 4:1–Eze 48:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1 - “And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2 - A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,[fn] your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - “Forge a chain![fn] For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 - Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And he said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2 - And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:20 - And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:4 - He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - and seized[fn] their widows.
He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:2 - “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6 - “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon[fn] a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9 - therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you,
“‘How you have perished,
you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants imposed their terror
on all her inhabitants!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,
and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 - The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,
and the women[fn] shall go into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 - In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been struck down.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:9 - I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - Like the flock for sacrifices,[fn] like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 - “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs[fn] and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:16 - (Hamonah[fn] is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 - In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me to the city.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2 - In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3 - And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he[fn] came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6 - “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - “And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15 - “The remainder, 5,000 cubits in breadth and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the midst of it shall be the city,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:17 - And the city shall have open land: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250, on the east 250, and on the west 250.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18 - The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19 - And the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:20 - The whole portion that you shall set apart shall be 25,000 cubits square, that is, the holy portion together with the property of the city.

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