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Dictionaries :: Citizen, Citizenship

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g4177 Greek: polites

Citizen, Citizenship:

"a member of a city or state, or the inhabitant of a country or district," Luk 15:15, is used elsewhere in Luk 19:14; Act 21:39, and, in the most authentic mss., in Hbr 8:11 (where some texts have plesion, "a neighbor"). Apart from Hbr 8:11, the word occurs only in the writings of Luke (himself a Greek).

2 Strong's Number: g4847 Greek: sumpolites

Citizen, Citizenship:

sun, "with," and No. 1, denotes "a fellow-citizen," i.e., possessing the same "citizenship," Eph 2:19, used metaphorically in a spiritual sense.

3 Strong's Number: g4174 Greek: politeia

Citizen, Citizenship:

signifies

(a) "the relation in which a citizen stands to the state, the condition of a citizen, citizenship," Act 22:28, "with a great sum obtained I this citizenship" (AV, "freedom"). While Paul's "citizenship" of Tarsus was not of advantage outside that city, yet his Roman "citizenship" availed throughout the Roman Empire and, besides private rights, included

(1) exemption from all degrading punishments;

(2) a right of appeal to the Emperor after a sentence;

(3) a right to be sent to Rome for trial before the Emperor if charged with a capital offense.

Paul's father might have obtained "citizenship"

(1) by manumission;

(2) as a reward of merit;

(3) by purchase; the contrast implied in Act 22:28 is perhaps against the last mentioned;

(b) "a civil polity, the condition of a state, a commonwealth," said of Israel, Eph 2:12.
See COMMONWEALTH.

4 Strong's Number: g4175 Greek: politeuma

Citizen, Citizenship:

signifies "the condition, or life, of a citizen, citizenship;" it is said of the heavenly status of believers, Phl 3:20, "our citizenship (AV, "conversation") is in Heaven." The RV marg. gives the alternative meaning, "commonwealth," i.e., community.
See COMMONWEALTH, FREEDOM.

Note: Politeuo, Phl 1:27, signifies "to be a polites" (see No. 1), and is used in the Middle Voice, signifying, metaphorically, conduct characteristic of heavenly "citizenship," RV, "let your manner of life (AV, "conversation") be worthy (marg., "behave as citizens worthily") of the Gospel of Christ." In Act 23:1 it is translated "I have lived."
See CONVERSATION, LIVE.

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