πολίτης polítēs
Meaning
a townsman
In the King James Version: citizen
Derivation: from G4172 (πόλις);
Where it is used
- Luke 15:15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
- Luke 19:14 But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
- Acts 21:39 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.”
- Hebrews 8:11 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.