πόλις, -εως, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly and very frequently for עִיר ;] a city: Mat.2:23, Mrk.1:45, Luk.4:29, Jhn.4:8, al. mult.; opposite to κῶμαι (κ. καὶ ἀγροί), Mat.9:35 10:11, Mrk.6:56, Luk.8:1 13:22; with nom. propr. in appos. (cl.), Act.11:5 16:14; with id. in genitive appos. (BL, §35, 5), Act.8:5, 2Pe.2:6; genitive, of the region, Luk.1:26 4:31, Jhn.4:5; of the inhabitants, Mat.10:5, 23 Luk.23:51, Act.19:35, 2Co.11:32; with genitive of person(s), of one's residence or native place, Mat.22:7, Luk.2:4, 11 4:29 10:11, Jhn.1:45, Act.16:20, Rev.16:9; of Jerusalem: ἡ ἁγία π., Mat.4:5 27:53, Rev.11:2; ἡ ἠγαπημένη, Rev.20:19; π. τοῦ μεγάλου, Mt 5 ̈35 (cf. Ps 47 (48):2); of the heavenly city in the Apocalyptic visions, Rev.3:12 21:2, 10 14ff. 22:14, 19. By meton., of the inhabitants of a city: Mat.8:34 12:25 21:10, Mrk.1:33, Act.14:21 21:30. (AS)
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
G4172 — πόλις
polis · city · Greek
153 tagged verse occurrences
Matthew 2:23 · πόλινand came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”Matthew 4:5 · πόλινThen the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,Matthew 5:14 · πόλιςYou are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.Matthew 5:35 · πόλιςnor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.Matthew 8:33 · πόλινThose who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.Matthew 8:34 · πόλιςBehold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.Matthew 9:1 · πόλιν.He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.Matthew 9:35 · πόλειςJesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.Matthew 10:5 · πόλινJesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.Matthew 10:11 · πόλινInto whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.Matthew 10:14 · πόλεωςWhoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.Matthew 10:15 · πόλειMost certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.Matthew 10:23 · πόλει · πόλειςBut when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.Matthew 11:1 · πόλεσινIt happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.Matthew 11:20 · πόλειςThen he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.Matthew 12:25 · πόλιςKnowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.Matthew 14:13 · πόλεων.Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.Matthew 21:10 · πόλιςWhen he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”Matthew 21:17 · πόλεωςHe left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.Matthew 21:18 · πόλινNow in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.Matthew 22:7 · πόλινWhen the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.Matthew 23:34 · πόλεως · πόλιν·Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;Matthew 26:18 · πόλινHe said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”Matthew 27:53 · πόλινand coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.Matthew 28:11 · πόλινNow while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.Mark 1:33 · πόλιςAll the city was gathered together at the door.Mark 1:45 · πόλινBut he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.Mark 5:14 · πόλινThose who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.Mark 6:33 · πόλεωνThey saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.Mark 6:56 · πόλειςWherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.Mark 11:19 · πόλεως.When evening came, he went out of the city.Mark 14:13 · πόλιν,He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,Mark 14:16 · πόλινHis disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.Luke 1:26 · πόλινNow in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,Luke 1:39 · πόλινMary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,Luke 2:3 · πόλιν.All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.Luke 2:4 · πόλεως · πόλινJoseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;Luke 2:11 · πόλειFor there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.Luke 2:39 · πόλινWhen they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.Luke 4:29 · πόλεως · πόλιςThey rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.Luke 4:31 · πόλινHe came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,Luke 4:43 · πόλεσινBut he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”Luke 5:12 · πόλεωνIt happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”Luke 7:11 · πόλινIt happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.Luke 7:12 · πόλεως, · πόλεωςNow when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.Luke 7:37 · πόλειBehold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.Luke 8:1 · πόλινIt happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,Luke 8:4 · πόλινWhen a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.Luke 8:27 · πόλεωςWhen Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.Luke 8:34 · πόλινWhen those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.Luke 8:39 · πόλιν“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.Luke 9:5 · πόλεωςAs many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”Luke 9:10 · πόλινThe apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.Luke 10:1 · πόλινNow after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.Luke 10:8 · πόλινInto whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.Luke 10:10 · πόλινBut into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say,Luke 10:11 · πόλεως‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’Luke 10:12 · πόλειI tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.Luke 13:22 · πόλειςHe went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.Luke 14:21 · πόλεως,“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’Luke 18:2 · πόλειsaying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.Luke 18:3 · πόλειA widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’Luke 19:17 · πόλεων.¶“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’Luke 19:19 · πόλεων.¶“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’Luke 19:41 · πόλινWhen he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,Luke 22:10 · πόλινHe said to them, “Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.Luke 23:19 · πόλειone who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.Luke 23:51 · πόλεως(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:Luke 24:49 · πόλειBehold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”John 1:44 · πόλεωςNow Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.John 4:5 · πόλινSo he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.John 4:8 · πόλινFor his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.John 4:28 · πόλινSo the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,John 4:30 · πόλεωςThey went out of the city, and were coming to him.John 4:39 · πόλεωςFrom that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”John 11:54 · πόλιν,Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.John 19:20 · πόλεωςTherefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.Acts 4:27 · πόλει“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered togetherActs 5:16 · πόλεωνMultitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.Acts 7:58 · πόλεωςThey threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.Acts 8:5 · πόλινPhilip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.Acts 8:8 · πόλειThere was great joy in that city.Acts 8:9 · πόλειBut there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,Acts 8:40 · πόλειςBut Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.Acts 9:6 · πόλιν,But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”Acts 10:9 · πόλειNow on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.Acts 11:5 · πόλει“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.Acts 12:10 · πόλιν,When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.Acts 13:44 · πόλιςThe next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.Acts 13:50 · πόλεωςBut the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.Acts 14:4 · πόλεως,But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.Acts 14:6 · πόλειςthey became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.Acts 14:13 · πόλεωςThe priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.Acts 14:19 · πόλεωςBut some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.Acts 14:20 · πόλινBut as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.Acts 14:21 · πόλινWhen they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,Acts 15:21 · πόλινFor Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”Acts 15:36 · πόλινAfter some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”Acts 16:4 · πόλεις,As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.Acts 16:11 · πόλιν,Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;Acts 16:12 · πόλις, · πόλειand from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.Acts 16:14 · πόλεωςA certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.Acts 16:20 · πόλινWhen they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,Acts 16:39 · πόλεως.¶and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.Acts 17:5 · πόλιν,But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.Acts 17:16 · πόλιν.Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.Acts 18:10 · πόλειfor I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”Acts 19:29 · πόλιςThe whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.Acts 19:35 · πόλινWhen the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?Acts 20:23 · πόλινexcept that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.Acts 21:5 · πόλεως,When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.Acts 21:29 · πόλειFor they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.Acts 21:30 · πόλιςAll the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.Acts 21:39 · πόλεωςBut Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”Acts 22:3 · πόλει“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.Acts 24:12 · πόλιν·In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.Acts 25:23 · πόλεωςSo on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.Acts 26:11 · πόλεις.Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.Romans 16:23 · πόλεωςGaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.2 Corinthians 11:26 · πόλει,I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;2 Corinthians 11:32 · πόλινIn Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.Titus 1:5 · πόλινI left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;Hebrews 11:10 · πόλινFor he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.Hebrews 11:16 · πόλιν.¶But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.Hebrews 12:22 · πόλειBut you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,Hebrews 13:14 · πόλιν,For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.James 4:13 · πόλινCome now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”2 Peter 2:6 · πόλειςand turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;Jude 1:7 · πόλειςEven as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.Revelation 3:12 · πόλεωςHe who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.Revelation 11:2 · πόλινLeave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.Revelation 11:8 · πόλεωςTheir dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.Revelation 11:13 · πόλεωςIn that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.Revelation 14:20 · πόλεως,The winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.Revelation 16:19 · πόλις · πόλειςThe great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.Revelation 17:18 · πόλιςThe woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”Revelation 18:10 · πόλις · πόλιςstanding far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’Revelation 18:16 · πόλιςsaying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!Revelation 18:18 · πόλειand cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’Revelation 18:19 · πόλιςThey cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For in one hour is she made desolate.Revelation 18:21 · πόλιςA mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.Revelation 20:9 · πόλινThey went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.Revelation 21:2 · πόλινI saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.Revelation 21:10 · πόλινHe carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,Revelation 21:14 · πόλεωςThe wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.Revelation 21:15 · πόλινHe who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.Revelation 21:16 · πόλις · πόλινThe city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.Revelation 21:18 · πόλιςThe construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.Revelation 21:19 · πόλεωςThe foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;Revelation 21:21 · πόλεωςThe twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
Showing the first 150 verse occurrences.