What does πολίτης (polítēs) mean in the Bible?
πολίτης (polítēs): Citizen with legal standing in a city-state; also denotes fellow-citizen sharing same political community.
Greek · G4177
πολίτης
A townsman
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πολίτης G4177
Pronunciation polítēs
What does πολίτης (polítēs) mean in the Bible?
πολίτης (polítēs): Citizen with legal standing in a city-state; also denotes fellow-citizen sharing same political community.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4177?
The BSB source-word alignment has 4 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include a citizen [of] (1), citizen (1), neighbor (1), subjects (1).
Where does πολίτης (polítēs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 15:15. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (2), Acts (1), Hebrews (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 a citizen [of] 1× Acts 21:39
citizen 1× Luke 15:15
neighbor 1× Hebrews 8:11
subjects 1× Luke 19:14
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 15:15
Aligned rows 4
Books represented 3
Luke 2 Acts 1 Hebrews 1
Source forms
πολῖται 1x politai Luke 19:14
πολίτην 1x politēn Hebrews 8:11
πολίτης 1x politēs Acts 21:39
πολιτῶν 1x politōn Luke 15:15
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular 1x Hebrews 8:11
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural 1x Luke 15:15
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural 1x Luke 19:14
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular 1x Acts 21:39
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Citizen with legal standing in a city-state; also denotes fellow-citizen sharing same political community.
Strong's G4177
Lexical occurrences 4 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 4 forms 4 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Luke 15:15 Source Gloss
a townsman
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Citizen with legal standing in a city-state; also denotes fellow-citizen sharing same political community.
(πόλις), [in LXX chiefly for רֵעַ ;]
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 15:15 Noun Genitive Plural Masculine
πολιτῶν politwn
a citizen
Read verse Luke 19:14 Noun Nominative Plural Masculine
πολῖται politai
a citizen
Read verse Acts 21:39 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
πολίτης· polithv
a citizen
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 4 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 4 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Nominative (2) Number pattern Plural (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Luke 19:14 1×
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Acts 21:39 1×
Genitive · Plural · Masculine Luke 15:15 1×
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Heb 8:11 1×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
A resident or inhabitant of a town or city, emphasizing local belonging
Fellow members of a political community sharing common civic identity and interests
Showing 2 selected witnesses from 4 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
πολίτης is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
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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