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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 164 times in 155 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Mat 2:23–Luk 8:27)

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:23 - and came and lived in a city called Natzeret; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: "He will be called a Natzri."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:5 - Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:14 - You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:35 - nor by the eretz, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Yerushalayim, for it is the city of the great King.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:33 - Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:34 - Behold, all the city came out to meet Yeshua. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:1 - He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:35 - Yeshua went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:5 - Yeshua sent these twelve out, and charged them, saying, "Don't go among the Goyim, and don't enter into any city of the Shomroni.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:11 - Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:14 - Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:15 - Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sedom and `Amorah in the day of judgment than for that city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:23 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most assuredly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Yisra'el, until the Son of Man has come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:1 - It happened that when Yeshua had finished directing his twelve talmidim, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:20 - Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn't repent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:25 - Knowing their thoughts, Yeshua said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:13 - Now when Yeshua heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:10 - When he had come into Yerushalayim, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:17 - He left them, and went out of the city to Beit-Anyah, and lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:18 - Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:7 - When the king heard that, he was angry, and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:34 - Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and Sofrim. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:18 - He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Pesach at your house with my talmidim."'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:53

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:53 - and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:11 - Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief Kohanim all the things that had happened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:33 - All the city was gathered together at the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:45 - But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Yeshua could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:14 - Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:11 - Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sedom and `Amorah in the day of judgment than for that city!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:33 - They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the tzitzit of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:19 - When evening came, he went out of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:13 - He sent two of his talmidim, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:16 - His talmidim went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Pesach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:26 - Now in the sixth month, the angel Gavri'el was sent from God to a city of the Galil, named Natzeret,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:39 - Miryam arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Yehudah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:3 - All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:4 - Yosef also went up from the Galil, out of the city of Natzeret, into Yehudah, to the city of David, which is called Beit-Lechem, because he was of the house and family of David;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:11 - For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Messiah the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:39 - When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into the Galil, to their own city, Natzeret.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:29 - They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:31 - He came down to Kafar-Nachum, a city of the Galil. He was teaching them on the day of Shabbat,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:43 - But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:12 - It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Yeshua, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:11 - It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Na`im. Many of his talmidim, along with a great multitude, went with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:12 - Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:37 - Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Parush's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:1 - It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:4 - When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:27 - When Yeshua stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs.

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