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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πολιτεία G4174
Pronunciation politeía
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 It citizenship 1× Acts 22:28
commonwealth 1× Ephesians 2:12
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 22:28
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Acts 1 Ephesians 1
Source forms
πολιτείαν 1x politeian Acts 22:28
πολιτείας 1x politeias Ephesians 2:12
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Acts 22:28
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Ephesians 2:12
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Citizenship as membership in a political commonwealth, not merely legal status but communal belonging.
Strong's G4174
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Acts 22:28 Source Gloss
citizenship; concretely, a community
Extended definition Source: 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 corpus Greek 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 22:28 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
πολιτείαν politeian
citizen body, citizenship
Read verse Ephesians 2:12 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
πολιτείας politeiav
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 patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Eph 2:12 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Acts 22:28 1×
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:
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain