Politeia means “commonwealth” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4174 — morad (“descent”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4174 πολιτεία (politeia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. politeia (pol-ee-tei'-ah) n. 1. citizenship 2. (concretely) a community It has 10 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include freedom and commonwealth. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
politeia (pol-ee-tei'-ah) n. 1. citizenship 2. (concretely) a community [from G4177 ("polity")] KJV: commonwealth, freedom Root(s): G4177
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4174. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
citizenship
Usage: πολιτεία, -ας, ἡ (πολιτεύω), [in LXX: 2Ma.4:11 2Mac 6:23 2Mac 8:17 2Mac 13:14, 3Ma.3:21 3Mac 3:23, 4Ma.3:20 4Mac 8:7 4Mac 17:9 * ;] __1. citizenship: Act.22:28 (3 Mac, ll. with, Hdt., Xen., a1.). __2. government, administration (Aristoph., Dem., al.). __3. a commonwealth: Eph.2:12.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render politeia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4174 (πολιτεία) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And the royal privileges granted of special favor to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs against the law:
and to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:
So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world, and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he camped by Modein:
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4174.
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
And the royal privileges granted of special favor to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs against the law:
and to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:
So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world, and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he camped by Modein:
Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen at Jerusalem, but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.
have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed toward us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.
For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law, and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government,
and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth’s delights.
Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4174, grouped by book.
Politeia (Strong's G4174) is a Greek word most simply glossed "commonwealth". politeia (pol-ee-tei'-ah) n. 1. citizenship 2. (concretely) a community
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G4174 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4174 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as freedom and commonwealth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4174, with linked reader references where each row is available.