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πόλις
pólis

a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)

164 occurrencesNew TestamentCommon word

Definition

From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Strong’s Definition

a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

a city, an enclosed and walled town, Mt. 10:5, 11; 11:1; meton. the inhabitants of a city, Mt. 8:34; 10:15; with a gen. of person, or a personal pronoun, the city of any one, the city of one’s birth or residence, Mt. 9:1; Lk. 2:4, 11; ἡ πόλις, the city, κατ’ ἐξοχήν, Jerusalem, Mt. 21:18; 28:11; met. a place of permanent residence, abode, home, Heb. 11:10, 16; 13:14. The frequency count does not include its occurrence in the name Νέαν πόλιν in Acts 16:11

Source: Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Translated in KJV as

city

Etymology

probably from the same as G4171 (πόλεμος), or perhaps from G4183 (πολύς);

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