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)
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G4172 — πόλις
polis · city · Greek
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Matthew 2:23 · πόλινand coming, he dwelt in a city named Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophets, that ‘A Nazarene he shall be called.’Matthew 4:5 · πόλινThen doth the Devil take him to the holy city, and doth set him on the pinnacle of the temple,Matthew 5:14 · πόλις‘Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;Matthew 5:35 · πόλιςnor by the earth, because it is His footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is a city of a great king,Matthew 8:33 · πόλινand those feeding did flee, and, having gone to the city, they declared all, and the matter of the demoniacs.Matthew 8:34 · πόλιςAnd lo, all the city came forth to meet Jesus, and having seen him, they called on him that he might depart from their borders.Matthew 9:1 · πόλιν.And having gone to the boat, he passed over, and came to his own city,Matthew 9:35 · πόλειςAnd Jesus was going up and down all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every sickness and every malady among the people.Matthew 10:5 · πόλινThese twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying, ‘To the way of the nations go not away, and into a city of the Samaritans go not in,Matthew 10:11 · πόλιν‘And into whatever city or village ye may enter, inquire ye who in it is worthy, and there abide, till ye may go forth.Matthew 10:14 · πόλεως‘And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,Matthew 10:15 · πόλειverily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.Matthew 10:23 · πόλει · πόλεις‘And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.Matthew 11:1 · πόλεσινAnd it came to pass, when Jesus ended directing his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.Matthew 11:20 · πόλειςThen began he to reproach the cities in which were done most of his mighty works, because they did not reform.Matthew 12:25 · πόλιςAnd Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, ‘Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand,Matthew 14:13 · πόλεων.and Jesus having heard, withdrew thence in a boat to a desolate place by himself, and the multitudes having heard did follow him on land from the cities.Matthew 21:10 · πόλιςAnd he having entered into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, ‘Who is this?’Matthew 21:17 · πόλεωςAnd having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there,Matthew 21:18 · πόλινand in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,Matthew 22:7 · πόλιν‘And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;Matthew 23:34 · πόλεως · πόλιν·‘Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;Matthew 26:18 · πόλινand he said, ‘Go away to the city, unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher saith, My time is nigh; near thee I keep the passover, with my disciples;’Matthew 27:53 · πόλινand having come forth out of the tombs after his rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many.Matthew 28:11 · πόλινAnd while they are going on, lo, certain of the watch having come to the city, told to the chief priests all the things that happened,Mark 1:33 · πόλιςand the whole city was gathered together near the door,Mark 1:45 · πόλινAnd he, having gone forth, began to proclaim much, and to spread abroad the thing, so that no more he was able openly to enter into the city, but he was without in desert places, and they were coming unto him from every quarter.Mark 5:14 · πόλινAnd those feeding the swine did flee, and told in the city, and in the fields, and they came forth to see what it is that hath been done;Mark 6:33 · πόλεωνAnd the multitudes saw them going away, and many recognised him, and by land from all the cities they ran thither, and went before them, and came together to him,Mark 6:56 · πόλειςand wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.Mark 11:19 · πόλεως.and when evening came, he was going forth without the city.Mark 14:13 · πόλιν,And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith to them, ‘Go ye away to the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water, follow him;Mark 14:16 · πόλινAnd his disciples went forth, and came to the city, and found as he said to them, and they made ready the passover.Luke 1:26 · πόλινAnd in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which is Nazareth,Luke 1:39 · πόλινAnd Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea,Luke 2:3 · πόλιν.and all were going to be enrolled, each to his proper city,Luke 2:4 · πόλεως · πόλινand Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David,Luke 2:11 · πόλειbecause there was born to you to-day a Saviour—who is Christ the Lord—in the city of David,Luke 2:39 · πόλινAnd when they finished all things, according to the Law of the Lord, they turned back to Galilee, to their city Nazareth;Luke 4:29 · πόλεως · πόλιςand having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built—to cast him down headlong,Luke 4:31 · πόλινAnd he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbaths,Luke 4:43 · πόλεσινand he said unto them—‘Also to the other cities it behoveth me to proclaim good news of the reign of God, because for this I have been sent;’Luke 5:12 · πόλεωνAnd it came to pass, in his being in one of the cities, that lo, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen on his face, he besought him, saying, ‘Sir, if thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me;’Luke 7:11 · πόλινAnd it came to pass, on the morrow, he was going on to a city called Nain, and there were going with him many of his disciples, and a great multitude,Luke 7:12 · πόλεως, · πόλεωςand as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her.Luke 7:37 · πόλειand lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,Luke 8:1 · πόλινAnd it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve are with him,Luke 8:4 · πόλινAnd a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile:Luke 8:27 · πόλεωςand he having gone forth upon the land, there met him a certain man, out of the city, who had demons for a long time, and with a garment was not clothed, and in a house was not abiding, but in the tombs,Luke 8:34 · πόλινAnd those feeding them, having seen what was come to pass, fled, and having gone, told it to the city, and to the fields;Luke 8:39 · πόλιν‘Turn back to thy house, and tell how great things God did to thee;’ and he went away through all the city proclaiming how great things Jesus did to him.Luke 9:5 · πόλεωςand as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, even the dust from your feet shake off, for a testimony against them.’Luke 9:10 · πόλινAnd the apostles having turned back, declared to him how great things they did, and having taken them, he withdrew by himself to a desert place of a city called Bethsaida,Luke 10:1 · πόλινAnd after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,Luke 10:8 · πόλινand into whatever city ye enter, and they may receive you, eat the things set before you,Luke 10:10 · πόλιν‘And into whatever city ye do enter, and they may not receive you, having gone forth to its broad places, say,Luke 10:11 · πόλεωςAnd the dust that hath cleaved to us, from your city, we do wipe off against you, but this know ye, that the reign of God hath come nigh to you;Luke 10:12 · πόλειand I say to you, that for Sodom in that day it shall be more tolerable than for that city.Luke 13:22 · πόλειςAnd he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;Luke 14:21 · πόλεως,‘And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither.Luke 18:2 · πόλειsaying, ‘A certain judge was in a certain city—God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding—Luke 18:3 · πόλειand a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,Luke 19:17 · πόλεων.¶and he said to him, Well done, good servant, because in a very little thou didst become faithful, be having authority over ten cities.Luke 19:19 · πόλεων.¶and he said also to this one, And thou, become thou over five cities.Luke 19:41 · πόλινAnd when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,Luke 22:10 · πόλινAnd he said to them, ‘Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in,Luke 23:19 · πόλειwho had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.Luke 23:51 · πόλεως—he was not consenting to their counsel and deed—from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,Luke 24:49 · πόλει‘And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye—abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.’John 1:44 · πόλεωςAnd Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter;John 4:5 · πόλινHe cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;John 4:8 · πόλινfor his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;John 4:28 · πόλινThe woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,John 4:30 · πόλεωςThey went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.John 4:39 · πόλεωςAnd from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying,—‘He told me all things—as many as I did.’John 11:54 · πόλιν,Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.John 19:20 · πόλεωςthis title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman.Acts 4:27 · πόλειfor gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,Acts 5:16 · πόλεωνand there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits—who were all healed.Acts 7:58 · πόλεωςand having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning him—and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul—Acts 8:5 · πόλινAnd Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ,Acts 8:8 · πόλειand there was great joy in that city.Acts 8:9 · πόλειAnd a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,Acts 8:40 · πόλειςand Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, till his coming to Caesarea.Acts 9:6 · πόλιν,trembling also, and astonished, he said, ‘Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?’ and the Lord said unto him, ‘Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.’Acts 10:9 · πόλειAnd on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,Acts 11:5 · πόλει‘I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;Acts 12:10 · πόλιν,and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one street, and immediately the messenger departed from him.Acts 13:44 · πόλιςAnd on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God,Acts 13:50 · πόλεωςAnd the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;Acts 14:4 · πόλεως,And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles,Acts 14:6 · πόλειςthey having become aware, did flee to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and to the region round about,Acts 14:13 · πόλεωςAnd the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,Acts 14:19 · πόλεωςAnd there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;Acts 14:20 · πόλινand the disciples having surrounded him, having risen he entered into the city, and on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.Acts 14:21 · πόλινHaving proclaimed good news also to that city, and having discipled many, they turned back to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,Acts 15:21 · πόλινfor Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him—in the synagogues every sabbath being read.’Acts 15:36 · πόλινand after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, ‘Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord—how they are.’Acts 16:4 · πόλεις,And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who are in Jerusalem,Acts 16:11 · πόλιν,having set sail, therefore, from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, on the morrow also to Neapolis,Acts 16:12 · πόλις, · πόλειthence also to Philippi, which is a principal city of the part of Macedonia—a colony. And we were in this city abiding certain days,Acts 16:14 · πόλεωςand a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;Acts 16:20 · πόλινand having brought them to the magistrates, they said, ‘These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews;Acts 16:39 · πόλεως.¶and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;Acts 17:5 · πόλιν,And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,Acts 17:16 · πόλιν.and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,Acts 18:10 · πόλειbecause I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;’Acts 19:29 · πόλιςand the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s fellow-travellers.Acts 19:35 · πόλινAnd the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, ‘Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?Acts 20:23 · πόλινsave that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;Acts 21:5 · πόλεως,but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,Acts 21:29 · πόλειfor they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple.Acts 21:30 · πόλιςAll the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,Acts 21:39 · πόλεωςAnd Paul said, ‘I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.’Acts 22:3 · πόλει‘I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.Acts 24:12 · πόλιν·and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;Acts 25:23 · πόλεωςon the morrow, therefore—on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered—Paul was brought forth.Acts 26:11 · πόλεις.and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.Romans 16:23 · πόλεωςsalute you doth Gaius, my host, and of the whole assembly; salute you doth Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus the brother,2 Corinthians 11:26 · πόλει,journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;2 Corinthians 11:32 · πόλινIn Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,Titus 1:5 · πόλινFor this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;Hebrews 11:10 · πόλινfor he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor is God.Hebrews 11:16 · πόλιν.¶but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.Hebrews 12:22 · πόλειBut, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,Hebrews 13:14 · πόλιν,for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;James 4:13 · πόλινGo, now, ye who are saying, ‘To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;’2 Peter 2:6 · πόλειςand the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set them;Jude 1:7 · πόλειςas Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before—an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.Revelation 3:12 · πόλεωςHe who is overcoming—I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of the heaven from my God—also my new name.Revelation 11:2 · πόλινand the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;Revelation 11:8 · πόλεωςand their dead bodies are upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)Revelation 11:13 · πόλεωςand in that hour came a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city did fall, and killed in the earthquake were names of men—seven thousands, and the rest became affrighted, and they gave glory to the God of the heaven.Revelation 14:20 · πόλεως,and trodden was the wine-press outside of the city, and blood did come forth out of the wine-press—unto the bridles of the horses, a thousand, six hundred furlongs.Revelation 16:19 · πόλις · πόλειςAnd it came—the great city—into three parts, and the cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of His anger,Revelation 17:18 · πόλιςand the woman that thou didst see is the great city that is having reign over the kings of the land.’Revelation 18:10 · πόλις · πόλιςfrom afar having stood because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! Babylon, the strong city! because in one hour did come thy judgment.Revelation 18:16 · πόλιςand saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was arrayed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and precious stone, and pearls—because in one hour so much riches were made waste!Revelation 18:18 · πόλειand were crying, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like to the great city?Revelation 18:19 · πόλιςand they did cast dust upon their heads, and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! in which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her costliness—for in one hour was she made waste.Revelation 18:21 · πόλιςAnd one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast it to the sea, saying, ‘Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;Revelation 20:9 · πόλινand they did go up over the breadth of the land, and did surround the camp of the saints, and the beloved city, and there came down fire from God out of the heaven, and devoured them;Revelation 21:2 · πόλινand I, John, saw the holy city—new Jerusalem—coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;Revelation 21:10 · πόλινand he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,Revelation 21:14 · πόλεωςand the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.Revelation 21:15 · πόλινAnd he who is speaking with me had a golden reed, that he may measure the city, and its gates, and its wall;Revelation 21:16 · πόλις · πόλινand the city lieth square, and the length of it is as great as the breadth; and he did measure the city with the reed—furlongs twelve thousand; the length, and the breadth, and the height, of it are equal;Revelation 21:18 · πόλιςand the building of its wall was jasper, and the city is pure gold—like to pure glass;Revelation 21:19 · πόλεωςand the foundations of the wall of the city with every precious stone have been adorned; the first foundation jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;Revelation 21:21 · πόλεωςAnd the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city is pure gold—as transparent glass.
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