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πόλις — 120x G4172 πόλις
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Occurrences: 118 times in 115 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12 - and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don't you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - Heshbon had been the capital of King Sihon of the Amorites. He had defeated a former Moabite king and seized all his land as far as the Arnon River.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:27 - Therefore, the ancient poets wrote this about him:
“Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt!
Let the city of Sihon be restored.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - Measure off 3,000 feet[fn] outside the town walls in every direction—east, south, west, north—with the town at the center. This area will serve as the larger pastureland for the towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:36 - “The LORD our God also helped us conquer Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Gorge, and the town in the gorge, and the whole area as far as Gilead. No town had walls too strong for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - We conquered all sixty of his towns—the entire Argob region in his kingdom of Bashan. Not a single town escaped our conquest.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - When the nearest town has been determined, that town's elders must select from the herd a young cow that has never been trained or yoked to a plow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - Jericho and everything in it must be completely destroyed[fn] as an offering to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it. Only the things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of the LORD's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - The Israelites set out at once to investigate and reached their towns in three days. The names of these towns were Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - He and his people became very afraid when they heard all this because Gibeon was a large town—as large as the royal cities and larger than Ai. And the Gibeonite men were strong warriors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:19 - No one in this region made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites of Gibeon. All the others were defeated.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:16 - Their territory extended from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Gorge (including the town in the middle of the gorge) to the plain beyond Medeba.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - (Previously Hebron had been called Kiriath-arba. It had been named after Arba, a great hero of the descendants of Anak.)
And the land had rest from war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:9 - From there the boundary extended from the top of the mountain to the spring at the waters of Nephtoah,[fn] and from there to the towns on Mount Ephron. Then it turned toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - The towns of Judah situated along the borders of Edom in the extreme south were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:54 - Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—nine towns with their surrounding villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:60 - There were also Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah—two towns with their surrounding villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14 - The boundary then made a turn and swung south along the western edge of the hill facing Beth-horon, ending at the village of Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a town belonging to the tribe of Judah. This was the western boundary.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 - The rest of the Kohathite clan from the tribe of Levi was allotted the following towns and pasturelands from the tribe of Ephraim:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - Every one of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:27 - The tribe of Manasseh failed to drive out the people living in Beth-shan,[fn] Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and all their surrounding settlements, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in that region.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:19 - So the two of them continued on their journey. When they came to Bethlehem, the entire town was excited by their arrival. “Is it really Naomi?” the women asked.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:13 - Eli was waiting beside the road to hear the news of the battle, for his heart trembled for the safety of the Ark of God. When the messenger arrived and told what had happened, an outcry resounded throughout the town.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:7 - But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:9 - So David made the fortress his home, and he called it the City of David. He extended the city, starting at the supporting terraces[fn] and working inward.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:45 - and Zadok and Nathan have anointed him at Gihon Spring as the new king. They have just returned, and the whole city is celebrating and rejoicing. That's what all the noise is about.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - When Zimri saw that the city had been taken, he went into the citadel of the palace and burned it down over himself and died in the flames.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19 - Then Elisha went out and told them, “You have come the wrong way! This isn't the right city! Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to the city of Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20 - So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was peaceful because Athaliah had been killed at the king's palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - Don't let him fool you into trusting in the LORD by saying, ‘The LORD will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king!'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - During Jehoiachin's reign, the officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against Jerusalem and besieged it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,[fn] they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king's garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:53 - and the families of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites, from whom came the people of Zorah and Eshtaol.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:5 - The people of Jebus taunted David, saying, “You'll never get in here!” But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:6 - Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:21 - So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was peaceful because Athaliah had been killed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - And the king should know that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, it will be much to your disadvantage, for the Jews will then refuse to pay their tribute, customs, and tolls to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - We suggest that a search be made in your ancestors' records, where you will discover what a rebellious city this has been in the past. In fact, it was destroyed because of its long and troublesome history of revolt against the kings and countries who controlled it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We declare to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, the province west of the Euphrates River will be lost to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:19 - I ordered a search of the records and have found that Jerusalem has indeed been a hotbed of insurrection against many kings. In fact, rebellion and revolt are normal there!
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:21 - Therefore, issue orders to have these men stop their work. That city must not be rebuilt except at my express command.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:4 - At that time the city was large and spacious, but the population was small, and none of the houses had been rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:15 - At the king's command, the decree went out by swift messengers, and it was also proclaimed in the fortress of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa fell into confusion.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10 - At least I can take comfort in this:
Despite the pain,
I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:2 - It is high and magnificent;
the whole earth rejoices to see it!
Mount Zion, the holy mountain,[fn]
is the city of the great King!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:3 - O city of God,
what glorious things are said of you!
Interlude
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:3 - Jerusalem is a well-built city;
its seamless walls cannot be breached.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:15 - The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
the poverty of the poor is their destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:10 - The whole city celebrates when the godly succeed;
they shout for joy when the wicked die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:11 - The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense;
they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:19 - An offended friend is harder to win back than a fortified city.
Arguments separate friends like a gate locked with bars.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:28 - A person without self-control
is like a city with broken-down walls.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:14 - There was a small town with only a few people, and a great king came with his army and besieged it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:16 - What sorrow for the land ruled by a servant,[fn]
the land whose leaders feast in the morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 - Beautiful Jerusalem[fn] stands abandoned
like a watchman's shelter in a vineyard,
like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest,
like a helpless city under siege.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - See how Jerusalem, once so faithful,
has become a prostitute.
Once the home of justice and righteousness,
she is now filled with murderers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - Then I will give you good judges again
and wise counselors like you used to have.
Then Jerusalem will again be called the Home of Justice
and the Faithful City.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:2 - “I will make Egyptian fight against Egyptian—
brother against brother,
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
province against province.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day five of Egypt's cities will follow the LORD of Heaven's Armies. They will even begin to speak Hebrew, the language of Canaan. One of these cities will be Heliopolis, the City of the Sun.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - The whole city is in a terrible uproar.
What do I see in this reveling city?
Bodies are lying everywhere,
killed not in battle but by famine and disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The city writhes in chaos;
every home is locked to keep out intruders.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - You turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins.
Cities with strong walls are turned to rubble.
Beautiful palaces in distant lands disappear
and will never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:1 - In that day, everyone in the land of Judah will sing this song:
Our city is strong!
We are surrounded by the walls of God's salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:3 - I, the LORD, will watch over it,
watering it carefully.
Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:1 - “What sorrow awaits Ariel,[fn] the City of David.
Year after year you celebrate your feasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 - For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers.
Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20 - Instead, you will see Zion as a place of holy festivals.
You will see Jerusalem, a city quiet and secure.
It will be like a tent whose ropes are taut
and whose stakes are firmly fixed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - Don't let him fool you into trusting in the LORD by saying, ‘The LORD will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king!'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1 - Wake up, wake up, O Zion!
Clothe yourself with strength.
Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem,
for unclean and godless people will enter your gates no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:14 - The descendants of your tormentors
will come and bow before you.
Those who despised you
will kiss your feet.
They will call you the City of the LORD,
and Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:12 - They will be called “The Holy People”
and “The People Redeemed by the LORD.”
And Jerusalem will be known as “The Desirable Place”
and “The City No Longer Forsaken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your holy cities are destroyed.
Zion is a wilderness;
yes, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29 - At the noise of charioteers and archers,
the people flee in terror.
They hide in the bushes
and run for the mountains.
All the towns have been abandoned—
not a person remains!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:6 - This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says:
“Cut down the trees for battering rams.
Build siege ramps against the walls of Jerusalem.
This is the city to be punished,
for she is wicked through and through.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:25 - then kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates forever. There will always be a descendant of David sitting on the throne here in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will always ride in and out among the people of Judah in chariots and on horses, and this city will remain forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - “What right do you have to prophesy in the LORD's name that this Temple will be destroyed like Shiloh? What do you mean, saying that Jerusalem will be destroyed and left with no inhabitants?” And all the people threatened him as he stood in front of the Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:18 - This is what the LORD says:
“When I bring Israel home again from captivity
and restore their fortunes,
Jerusalem will be rebuilt on its ruins,
and the palace reconstructed as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:38 - “The day is coming,” says the LORD, “when all Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - “See how the siege ramps have been built against the city walls! Through war, famine, and disease, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians, who will conquer it. Everything has happened just as you said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:25 - And yet, O Sovereign LORD, you have told me to buy the field—paying good money for it before these witnesses—even though the city will soon be handed over to the Babylonians.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:28 - Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I will hand this city over to the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:31 - “From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2 - “Go to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:3 - The LORD also says: ‘The city of Jerusalem will certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the Babylonian officers, you and your family will live, and the city will not be burned down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18 - But if you refuse to surrender, you will not escape! This city will be handed over to the Babylonians, and they will burn it to the ground.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - All your wives and children will be led out to the Babylonians, and you will not escape. You will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:2 - Two and a half years later, on July 18[fn] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, the Babylonians broke through the wall, and the city fell.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - “All the towns will be destroyed,
and no one will escape—
either on the plateaus or in the valleys,
for the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - But now Moab and his towns will be destroyed.
His most promising youth are doomed to slaughter,”
says the King, whose name is the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:31 - The news is passed from one runner to the next
as the messengers hurry to tell the king
that his city has been captured.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:5 - Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,[fn] they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king's garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - Jerusalem, once so full of people,
is now deserted.
She who was once great among the nations
now sits alone like a widow.
Once the queen of all the earth,
she is now a slave.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:15 - All who pass by jeer at you.
They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem,[fn] saying,
“Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World'
and ‘Joy of All the Earth'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - “Prepare chains for my people,
for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes.
Jerusalem is filled with violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then he said to me, “The sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very, very great. The entire land is full of murder; the city is filled with injustice. They are saying, ‘The LORD doesn't see it! The LORD has abandoned the land!'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - and give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: O city of murderers, doomed and damned—city of idols,[fn] filthy and foul—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:6 - “Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
What sorrow awaits Jerusalem,
the city of murderers!
She is a cooking pot
whose corruption can't be cleaned out.
Take the meat out in random order,
for no piece is better than another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - Then they will wail for you, singing this funeral song:
“O famous island city,
once ruler of the sea,
how you have been destroyed!
Your people, with their naval power,
once spread fear around the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 - On January 8,[fn] during the twelfth year of our captivity, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15 - “An additional strip of land 8⅓ miles long by 1⅔ miles wide,[fn] south of the sacred Temple area, will be allotted for public use—homes, pasturelands, and common lands, with a city at the center.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:8 - “Gilead is a city of sinners,
tracked with footprints of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:17 - “Then you will know that I, the LORD your God,
live in Zion, my holy mountain.
Jerusalem will be holy forever,
and foreign armies will never conquer her again.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:3 - The Sovereign LORD says:
“When a city sends a thousand men to battle,
only a hundred will return.
When a town sends a hundred,
only ten will come back alive.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - This time Jonah obeyed the LORD's command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:15 - This is the boisterous city,
once so secure.
“I am the greatest!” it boasted.
“No other city can compare with me!”
But now, look how it has become an utter ruin,
a haven for wild animals.
Everyone passing by will laugh in derision
and shake a defiant fist.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:1 - What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem,
the city of violence and crime!
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:3 - “And now the LORD says: I am returning to Mount Zion, and I will live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the LORD of Heaven's Armies will be called the Holy Mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the population will be taken into captivity, and the rest will be left among the ruins of the city.
N-ASF
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Accusative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20 - Instead, you will see Zion as a place of holy festivals.
You will see Jerusalem, a city quiet and secure.
It will be like a tent whose ropes are taut
and whose stakes are firmly fixed.
N-VSF
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1 - What sorrow awaits Nineveh,
the city of murder and lies!
She is crammed with wealth
and is never without victims.
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