Polites means “citizen” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4177 — morah (“razor”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4177 πολίτης (polites) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. polites (pol-ee'-tace) n. 1. a citizen, a townsman [from G4172] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include citizen and citizens. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
polites (pol-ee'-tace) n. 1. a citizen, a townsman [from G4172] KJV: citizen Root(s): G4172
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4177. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
citizen
Usage: πολίτης, -ου, ὁ (πόλις), [in LXX chiefly for רֵעַ ;] __1. a citizen: with genitive loc., Luk.15:15, Act.21:39. __2. a fellow-citizen: with genitive of person(s), Luk.19:14, Heb.8:11" (LXX) .† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render polites, 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, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 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 G4177 (πολίτης) appears 17 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
7 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Attend to me, my lord, and hear me, I give to thee the field and the cave which is in it; I have given it thee before all my countrymen; bury thy dead.
In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: But the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.
A man void of understanding sneers at his fellow citizens: But a sensible man is quiet.
9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
he went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both public and private:
And so through the covetousness of them that were of power Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and being a great traitor to the citizens.
but Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4177.
Attend to me, my lord, and hear me, I give to thee the field and the cave which is in it; I have given it thee before all my countrymen; bury thy dead.
In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: But the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.
A man void of understanding sneers at his fellow citizens: But a sensible man is quiet.
fellow citizen, Neither exaggerate with thy lips.
because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and because they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens, and spoke a word in my name, which I did not command them to speak, and I am witness, saith the Lord.
And they shall not at all teach every one his fellow citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherds, and against the man who is my citizen, saith the Lord Almighty: smite the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring my hand upon the little ones.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
he went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both public and private:
And so through the covetousness of them that were of power Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and being a great traitor to the citizens.
but Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.
In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest bare a heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.
Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:
first, verily for the unfeigned care I have of things pertaining to the king; and secondly, even for that I intend the good of mine own citizens: for all our nation is in no small misery through the unadvised dealing of them aforesaid.
And Judas, who was ever the chief defender of the citizens both in body and mind, and who continued his love toward his countrymen all his life, commanded to strike off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with his shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.
Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4177, grouped by book.
Polites (Strong's G4177) is a Greek word most simply glossed "citizen". polites (pol-ee'-tace) n. 1. a citizen, a townsman [from G4172]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G4177 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4177 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as citizen and citizens. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 7 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4177, with linked reader references where each row is available.