Original Word: πολίτης, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: polités
Phonetic Spelling: (pol-ee'-tace)
Definition: a citizen
Usage: a citizen, fellow-citizen.Word Origin
from polis
Definition
a citizen
NASB Translation
citizen (1), citizens (2), fellow citizen (1).

STRONGS NT 4177: πολίτης

πολίτης, πολιτου, ὁ (πόλις), from Homer down, a citizen; i. e.

a. the inhabitant of any city or conntry: πόλεως, Acts 21:39; τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης, Luke 15:15.

b. the associate of another in citizenship, i. e. a fellow-citizen, fellow-countryman, (Plato, Apology, p. 37 c.; others): with the genitive of a person, Luke 19:14; Hebrews 8:11 (where Rec. has τόν πλησίον) from Jeremiah 38:34 (), where it is used for רֵעַ , as in Proverbs 11:9, 12; Proverbs 24:43 ().

citizen.

From polis; a townsman -- citizen.

see GREEK polis

πολιται πολίται πολῖται πολίταις πολίτας πολιτην πολίτην πολιτης πολίτης πολιτων πολιτών πολιτῶν politai polîtai politen politēn políten polítēn polites politēs polítes polítēs politon politôn politōn politō̂nInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts