πολιτεία
politeía · G4174 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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citizenship
The right to be a citizen of a particular socio-political entity (see sense 2 and πολίτης (polítēs, G4177))
ExamplesActs 22:28 The commander answered, “I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money.” And Paul said, “But I was actually born a citizen.”
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state, people
A group of people constituting a socio-political unit
ExamplesEphesians 2:12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the people of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἸσραήλIsrael 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κτάομαιto get 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- δῆμος dēmos · G1218 · assembly, gathering
- A collective term for the people as a civic body; overlaps with the concrete sense of πολιτεία as 'community,' though δῆμος focuses on the people themselves while πολιτεία can include the abstract notion of citizenship or civic structure
Semantic domains 2 entries
- State, people11.67
- The noun can denote a body politic or national community considered as a whole. Paul's reminder to the Ephesians of their former condition uses this term: “remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the people of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12, where the underlying noun names Israel's own body politic or commonwealth from which the Gentiles were excluded).
- Citizenship11.70
- The same noun can denote the legal status of citizenship itself, as a right or privilege one holds. Luke's account of Paul's arrest records the Roman commander's exchange with him: “The commander answered, 'I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money.' And Paul said, 'But I was actually born a citizen'” (Acts 22:28).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πολιτείας, ἡ (πολιτεύω); 1. the administration of civil affairs (Xenophon, mem. 3, 9, 15;…
1. the administration of civil affairs (Xenophon, mem. 3, 9, 15; Aristophanes, Aeschines, Demosthenes (others)).
2. a state, commonwealth (2 Macc. 4:11 2Macc. 8:17 2Macc. 13:14; Xenophon, Plato, Thucydides (others)): with a genitive of the possessor, τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, spoken of the theocratic or divine commonwealth, Eph 2:12.
3. citizenship, the rights of a citizen (some make this sense the primary one): Acts 22:28 (3Macc. 3:21, 23; Herodotus 9, 34; Xenophon, Hell. 1, 1, 26; 1, 2, 10; (4, 4, 6, etc.); Demosthenes, Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, others).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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