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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 - And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12 - and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of the place:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18 - unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master’s in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - behold, I am standing by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:29 - and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32 - And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39 - And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35 - And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bare unto him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

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