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:
Acts 14:20: "and came into the city: and the next day he departed"
Acts 14:21: "And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again"
Acts 15:21: "Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach"
Acts 15:36: "our brethren in every city where we have preached"
Acts 16:4: "as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees"
Acts 16:12: "which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and"
Acts 16:12: "we were in that city abiding certain days."
Acts 16:13: "we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer"
Acts 16:14: "named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard"
Acts 16:20: "Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,"
Acts 16:39: "and desired them to depart out of the city."
Acts 17:5: "baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted"
Acts 17:16: "him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry."
Acts 18:10: "people in this city."
Acts 19:29: "And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught"
Acts 19:35: "there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper"
Acts 20:23: "Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds"
Acts 21:5: "children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down"
Acts 21:29: "him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed"
Acts 21:30: "And all the city was moved, and the people"
Acts 21:39: "a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer"
Acts 22:3: "brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel,"
Acts 24:12: "synagogues, nor in the city:"
Acts 25:23: "principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment"
Acts 26:11: "I persecuted them even unto strange cities."
Acts 27:8: "havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea."
Romans 16:23: "the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus"
2 Corinthians 11:26: "the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils"
2 Corinthians 11:32: "under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous"
Titus 1:5: "the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I"
Hebrews 11:10: "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and"
Hebrews 11:16: "for he hath prepared for them a city."
Hebrews 12:22: "mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,"
Hebrews 13:14: "have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come."
James 4:13: "we will go into such a city, and continue there a"
2 Peter 2:6: "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow,"
Jude 1:7: "Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner,"
Revelation 3:12: "the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,"
Revelation 11:2: "and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months."
Revelation 11:8: "street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom"
Revelation 11:13: "the tenth part of the city fell, and in the"
Revelation 14:8: "is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of"
Revelation 14:20: "was trodden without the city, and blood came out of"
Revelation 16:19: "And the great city was divided into three parts,"
Revelation 16:19: "parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and"
Revelation 17:18: "thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the"
Revelation 18:10: "saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city!"
Revelation 18:10: "that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one"
Revelation 18:16: "Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple,"
Revelation 18:18: "What city is like unto this great city!"
