What does πολιτεία (politeía) mean in the Bible?
πολιτεία (politeía): Citizenship as membership in a political commonwealth, not merely legal status but communal belonging.
Greek · G4174
πολιτεία
Citizenship; concretely, a community
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πολιτείαG4174
Pronunciationpoliteía
What does πολιτεία (politeía) mean in the Bible?
πολιτεία (politeía): Citizenship as membership in a political commonwealth, not merely legal status but communal belonging.
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How does the BSB render G4174?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include citizenship (1), commonwealth (1).
Where does πολιτεία (politeía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 22:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1), Ephesians (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itcitizenship1×Acts 22:28
commonwealth1×Ephesians 2:12
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowActs 22:28
Aligned rows2
Books represented2
Acts1Ephesians1
Source forms
πολιτείαν1xpoliteianActs 22:28
πολιτείας1xpoliteiasEphesians 2:12
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular1xActs 22:28
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xEphesians 2:12
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Citizenship as membership in a political commonwealth, not merely legal status but communal belonging.
Strong'sG4174
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms2 forms2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Study linkActs 22:28Source Gloss
citizenship; concretely, a community
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Citizenship as membership in a political commonwealth, not merely legal status but communal belonging.
(πολιτεύω), [in LXX: 2Ma.4:11 2Mac 6:23 2Mac 8:17 2Mac 13:14, 3Ma.3:21 3Mac 3:23, 4Ma.3:20 4Mac 8:7 4Mac 17:9 * ;]
1citizenship: Act.22:28 (3 Mac, ll. with, Hdt., Xen., a1.).
2government, administration (Aristoph., Dem., al.).
3a commonwealth: Eph.2:12.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 22:28Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
πολιτείανpoliteian
citizen body, citizenship
Read verseEphesians 2:12Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
πολιτείαςpoliteiav
citizen body, citizenship
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns2Aligned forms2Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · FeminineEph 2:121×
Accusative · Singular · FeminineActs 22:281×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Biblical Witnesses
Legal status of citizenship acquired by birth or purchase
Political community and covenant privileges of Israel excluded from Gentiles
Word Origins
πολιτεία is built from this root:
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