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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 1,196 times in 1,037 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 21 (Gen 4:17–Gen 44:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare[fn] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[fn] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18 - to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim[fn] and made his way to the town of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - See, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the cities of their enemies.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - He called it Shibah,[fn] and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - He called that place Bethel,[fn] though the city used to be called Luz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - After Jacob came from Paddan Aram,[fn] he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where[fn] their sister had been defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:29 - They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32 - Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39 - When Baal-Hanan son of Akbor died, Hadad[fn] succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35 - They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,[fn] to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - They had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Go after those men at once, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - At this, they tore their clothes. Then they all loaded their donkeys and returned to the city.

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