Strong's #4172: polis (pronounced pol'-is)
probably from the same as 4171, or perhaps from 4183; a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size):--city.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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polis
1) a city
1a) one' s native city, the city in which one lives
1b) the heavenly Jerusalem
1b1) the abode of the blessed in heaven
1b2) of the visible capital in the heavenly kingdom, to come down to earth after the renovation of the world by fire
1c) the inhabitants of a city
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: probably from the same as 4171, or perhaps from G4183
Citing in TDNT: 6:516, 906
Usage:
This word is used 165 times:
Luke 7:12: "much people of the city was with her."
Luke 7:37: "a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew"
Luke 8:1: "afterward, that he went throughout every city and village,"
Luke 8:4: "were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:"
Luke 8:27: "him out of the city a certain man, which had"
Luke 8:34: "and told it in the city and in the country."
Luke 8:39: "throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him."
Luke 9:5: "you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very"
Luke 9:10: "privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida."
Luke 10:1: "his face into every city and place, whither"
Luke 10:8: "into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive"
Luke 10:10: "into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive"
Luke 10:11: "very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you:"
Luke 10:12: "for Sodom, than for that city."
Luke 13:22: "And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and"
Luke 14:21: "and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the"
Luke 18:2: "There was in a city a judge, which feared not"
Luke 18:3: "a widow in that city; and she came unto him,"
Luke 19:17: "have thou authority over ten cities."
Luke 19:19: "also over five cities."
Luke 19:41: "he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,"
Luke 22:10: "are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing"
Luke 23:19: "made in the city, and for murder, was cast"
Luke 23:51: "of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also"
Luke 24:49: "ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued"
John 1:44: "of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter."
John 4:5: "Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near"
John 4:8: "were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)"
John 4:28: "went her way into the city, and saith to the men,"
John 4:30: "they went out of the city, and came unto him."
John 4:39: "Samaritans of that city believed on him for"
John 11:54: "the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued"
John 19:20: "was nigh to the city: and it was written"
Acts 5:16: "also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing"
Acts 7:58: "cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses"
Acts 8:5: "Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them."
Acts 8:8: "joy in that city."
Acts 8:9: "which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the"
Acts 8:40: "he preached in all the cities, till he came to"
Acts 9:6: "and go into the city,"
Acts 9:6: "and go into the"
Acts 10:9: "and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the"
Acts 11:5: "I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in"
Acts 12:10: "that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them"
Acts 13:44: "the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together"
Acts 13:50: "the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against"
Acts 14:4: "the multitude of the city was divided: and part"
Acts 14:6: "Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and into the region that lieth round about:"
Acts 14:13: "which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands"
Acts 14:19: "drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead."
