πόλις

polis

Greek G4172 Noun, feminine 164 occurrences in 155 verses
πόλις city

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.

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Concordance 155 verses

  1. Acts 16:12 πόλιςπόλει

    From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.

  2. Acts 16:14 πόλεως

    Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

  3. Acts 16:20 πόλιν

    They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil

  4. Acts 16:39 πόλεως

    They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave the city.

  5. Acts 17:5 πόλιν

    The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.

  6. Acts 17:16 πόλιν

    While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

  7. Acts 18:10 πόλει

    For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.”

  8. Acts 19:29 πόλις

    Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.

  9. Acts 19:35 πόλιν

    Finally the city clerk quieted the crowd and declared, “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?

  10. Acts 20:23 πόλιν

    I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.

  11. Acts 21:5 πόλεως

    But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to pray with us.

  12. Acts 21:29 πόλει

    For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

  13. Acts 21:30 πόλις

    The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

  14. Acts 21:39 πόλεως

    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.”

  15. Acts 22:3 πόλει

    “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.

  16. Acts 24:12 πόλιν

    Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

  17. Acts 25:23 πόλεως

    The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium, along with the commanders and leading men of the city. And Festus ordered that Paul be brought in.

  18. Acts 26:11 πόλεις

    I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

  19. Acts 27:8 πόλις

    After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

  20. Romans 16:23 πόλεως

    Gaius, who has hosted me and all the church, sends you greetings. Erastus, the city treasurer, sends you greetings, as does our brother Quartus.

  21. In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,

  22. In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.

  23. Colossians 4:13 πόλει

    For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.

  24. Titus 1:5 πόλιν

    The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

  25. Hebrews 11:10 πόλιν

    For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

  26. Hebrews 11:16 πόλιν

    Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

  27. Hebrews 12:22 πόλει

    Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

  28. Hebrews 13:14 πόλιν

    For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

  29. James 4:13 πόλιν

    Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”

  30. 2 Peter 2:6 πόλεις

    if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

  31. Jude 1:7 πόλεις

    In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

  32. Revelation 3:12 πόλεως

    The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.

  33. Revelation 11:2 πόλιν

    But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

  34. Revelation 11:8 πόλεως

    Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.

  35. Revelation 11:13 πόλεως

    And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

  36. Revelation 14:20 πόλεως

    And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

  37. Revelation 16:19 πόλιςπόλεις

    The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

  38. Revelation 17:18 πόλις

    And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

  39. Revelation 18:10 πόλιςπόλις

    In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

  40. Revelation 18:16 πόλις

    saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

  41. Revelation 18:18 πόλει

    and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim.

  42. Revelation 18:19 πόλις

    Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”

  43. Revelation 18:21 πόλις

    Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

  44. Revelation 20:9 πόλιν

    And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.

  45. Revelation 21:2 πόλιν

    I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

  46. Revelation 21:10 πόλιν

    And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

  47. Revelation 21:14 πόλεως

    The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

  48. Revelation 21:15 πόλιν

    The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.

  49. Revelation 21:16 πόλιςπόλιν

    The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

  50. Revelation 21:18 πόλις

    The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

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