Greek · G4177, G5561 · unreviewed

ἑνὶ τῶν πολιτῶν τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης

A townsman · country

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πολίτης G4177 a townsman
Pronunciation polítēs
Citizen with legal standing in a city-state; also denotes fellow-citizen sharing same political community.
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χώρα G5561 country
Pronunciation chṓra
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What does ἑνὶ τῶν πολιτῶν τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης (heni tōn politōn tēs chōras ekeinēs) mean in the Bible?

πολίτης · χώρα is a Greek word meaning "one of the citizens of that country".

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Meaning

one of the citizens of that country
Grammatical Forms

How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.

Nominative · Plural · Masculine Luke 19:14
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Acts 21:39
Genitive · Plural · Masculine Luke 15:15
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Heb 8:11
Word Pictures (Robertson)

A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) discusses this term in the following chapters. Open any chapter and go to the Word Pictures tab to read his verse-by-verse commentary.

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