For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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πόλις
Vocabulary form:
povliV, -ewV, hJ
Definition:
city
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
162
GK:
4484
Root:
poli
Cognates:
Metropolis ("mother-city") is the parent city of a colony, especially an ancient Greek colony. The word came to be used of any capital or large city.
Neapolis is the port city of Philippi (Acts 16:11).
Mnemonic Singing:
We're marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God.
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 16:12 | and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We remained in that city (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) for several days. |
| Acts 16:14 | And a certain woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple cloths from the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) of Thyatira, a worshipper of God, listened; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to what was said by Paul. |
| Acts 16:20 | And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) |
| Acts 16:39 | So they came and spoke to them in a friendly manner; and having taken them out, they asked them to leave the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem). |
| Acts 17:5 | But the Jews, moved by envy, recruited certain wicked men of the marketplace and, forming a mob, they set the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) in an uproar. They attacked the house of Jason, trying to bring them out to the people. |
| Acts 17:16 | Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him on seeing the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) full of idols. |
| Acts 18:10 | because I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you to do you harm, for I have many people in this city.” (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) |
| Acts 19:29 | So the city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with a single purpose into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, traveling-companions of Paul. |
| Acts 19:35 | And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) of the Ephesians is the temple keeper of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven? |
| Acts 20:23 | except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me, saying that in every city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me. |
| Acts 21:5 | When our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey, and they all, with wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem). Then kneeling down on the beach, we prayed |
| Acts 21:29 | For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) with him, and they assumed that Paul had taken him into the temple. |
| Acts 21:30 | Then all the city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) was stirred up, and a mob of people quickly formed. They seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. |
| Acts 21:39 | But Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem). I beg you, let me speak to the people.” |
| Acts 22:3 | “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the strictness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God just as you all are today. |
| Acts 24:12 | and they did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem). |
| Acts 25:23 | So on the next day when Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall along with the commanding officers and the prominent men of the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem), and when Festus had given the order, Paul was brought in. |
| Acts 26:11 | And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and since I was so vehemently angry at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities (poleis | πόλεις | acc pl fem). |
| Acts 27:8 | Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) Lasea. |
| Romans 16:23 | Gaius, a host to me as well as to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) treasurer greets you, as does our brother Quartus. |
| 2 Corinthians 11:26 | On my frequent journeys I have been exposed to dangers from rivers, dangers from bandits, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem), dangers in the countryside, dangers at sea, dangers at the hands of false brothers; |
| 2 Corinthians 11:32 | At Damascus the ethnarch under king Aretas was guarding the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) of Damascus in order to arrest me, |
| Titus 1:5 | For this reason I left you in Crete, so that you might put right the remaining things and appoint elders in every town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), as I directed you — |
| Hebrews 11:10 | for he was looking forward to the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) which has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. |
| Hebrews 11:16 | But as it is, they were longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly one. For this reason God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) to receive them. |
| Hebrews 12:22 | On the contrary, you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels, to a joyful assembly, |
| Hebrews 13:14 | For here we have no permanent city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), but we are looking forward to the city that is to come. |
| James 4:13 | Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to some city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” |
| 2 Peter 2:6 | if by reducing the cities (poleis | πόλεις | acc pl fem) of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly, |
| Jude 1:7 | Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns (poleis | πόλεις | nom pl fem), which indulged in sexual immorality in the same way as the angels and pursued unnatural desire, are exhibited as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. |
| Revelation 3:12 | The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God and he will never go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) of my God (the new Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven from my God), and my own new name. |
| Revelation 11:2 | but exclude the court that is outside the temple; do not measure it because it has been given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) for forty-two months. |
| Revelation 11:8 | and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem), which symbolically is called Sodom, or Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. |
| Revelation 11:13 | And at that very hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. |
| Revelation 14:20 | Then the winepress was trodden outside the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem), and blood poured out from the winepress, rising to the height of horses’ bridles for a distance of about two hundred miles. |
| Revelation 16:19 | The great city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) was split into three parts, and the cities (poleis | πόλεις | nom pl fem) of the nations fell. So Babylon the great was remembered before God and was given the cup filled with the wine of his fierce anger. |
| Revelation 17:18 | And the woman you saw is the great city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) that has dominion over the kings of the earth.” |
| Revelation 18:10 | They will stand at a distance in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! Alas! O great city (polis | πόλις | voc sg fem), Babylon the mighty city! (polis | πόλις | voc sg fem) For in a single hour your judgment has come.” |
| Revelation 18:16 | They will lament, “Alas, alas, O great city (polis | πόλις | voc sg fem), clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, glittering with gold, precious stones, and pearls! |
| Revelation 18:18 | and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, exclaiming, “What city was ever like the great city?” (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) |
| Revelation 18:19 | And they threw dust on their heads and cried out as they wept and mourned, saying, “Alas, alas, O great city (polis | πόλις | voc sg fem) by which all who had ships at sea grew rich from her prosperity! For in a single hour she has been brought to ruin. |
| Revelation 18:21 | Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a huge millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying, “With this kind of violence Babylon the great city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) will be thrown down, and never again will it be found! |
| Revelation 20:9 | And they marched up on the broad plain of the earth and encircled the camp of the saints and the beloved city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), but fire came down from heaven and consumed them. |
| Revelation 21:2 | And I saw the holy city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. |
| Revelation 21:10 | And he carried me away in the spirit up onto a great, lofty mountain, and showed me the holy city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. |
| Revelation 21:14 | The wall of the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. |
| Revelation 21:15 | The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), its gates and its wall. |
| Revelation 21:16 | The city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) was laid out as a square, its length the same as its width. He measured the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) with the measuring rod at twelve thousand stadia, its length, width, and height being equal. |
| Revelation 21:18 | The city’s wall was made of jasper and the city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) was pure gold, as pure as glass. |
| Revelation 21:19 | The foundations of the wall of the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) were adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, |