Word

πολίτης

polítēs · G4177 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

citizen

A person having full status as a member of a socio-political unit of people

Examples
Luke 15:15 “So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luke 19:14 “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
Acts 21:39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

How it’s used In 4 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

4 occurrences in 3 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
πόλιςcity 1
χώραcountry, region, land 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μισέωto hate 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

διδάσκωto teach, teaching 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

κολλάωto join 1
πορεύομαιto go, to travel 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Citizen11.68: The noun names a citizen, a member of a particular city, state, or nation. Luke's parable of the prodigal son describes his circumstance in the far country: “'So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs'” (Luke 15:15).

Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πόλις pólis · G4172 · city, town · 163×πολίτηςpolítēs · G4177πολιτάρχης politárchēs · G4173 · city official · 2×πολιτεία politeía · G4174 · citizenship, state, people · 2×πολιτεύομαι politeúomai · G4176 · to live, to conduct one’s life, to live in relation to others · 2×πολίτευμα políteuma · G4175 · state, commonwealth, place of citizenship · 1×συμπολίτης sympolítēs · G4847 · fellow citizen · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πολιτου, ὁ (πόλις), from Homer down, a citizen; i. e. a. the inhabitant of any city or…

πολιτου, ὁ (πόλις), from Homer down, a citizen; i. e.
a. the inhabitant of any city or conntry: πόλεως, Acts 21:39; τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης, Lk 15:15.
b. the associate of another in citizenship, i. e. a fellow-citizen, fellow-countryman, (Plato, Apology, p. 37 c.; others): with the genitive of a person, Lk 19:14; Heb 8:11 (where Rec. has τόν πλησίον) from Jeremiah 38:34, where it is used for רֵעַ, as in Prov 11:9, Prov 11:12; Proverbs 24:43 ().

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Socio-Political4 occurrences

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