πολίτης
politēs
“citizen”
Definition
a townsman
from G4172 (πόλις);
Go beyond grammar.
See how this word works across context, usage, and meaning with AI-assisted word study built for serious Bible study.
logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
G:N-M
Greek Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
πολίτης appears 4 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother,saying, ‘Know the Lord,’because they will all know Me,from the least of them to the greatest.
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.