Vocabulary Form
πόλις, -εως, ἡ
Definition

city

Erasmian
Modern
Root
πολι
Frequency
162
GK
4484
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.

Song

Biblical Concordance

Mark 1:33 And the entire city (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) gathered at the door.
Mark 1:45 However, he went out and began to announce it publicly and spread abroad the news, so that no longer Jesus could no longer openly enter a town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), enter but stayed out in unpopulated areas. stayed Yet people kept coming to him from every quarter.
Mark 5:14 Those tending the pigs fled and reported it in the village (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) and throughout the countryside, and people came to see what had happened.
Mark 6:33 Many people saw them leaving, recognized them, and hurried together on foot from all the towns (poleōn | πόλεων | gen pl fem) and arrived there ahead of them.
Mark 6:56 And wherever he entered villages, towns (poleis | πόλεις | acc pl fem), or rural areas, they would place the sick in the marketplaces and implore him that they might touch just the fringe of his cloak. And as many as touched him were made well.
Mark 11:19 And when evening came, they went out of the city (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem).
Mark 14:13 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) and a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him.
Mark 14:16 The disciples left, came to the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), and found things just as he had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
Luke 1:26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) of Galilee named Nazareth,
Luke 1:39 In those days Mary arose and went into the hill country with eagerness, to a town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) in Judah,
Luke 2:3 And everyone went to be registered, each to his own town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem).
Luke 2:4 So Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
Luke 2:11 because this very day there has been born to you, in the city (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) of David, a savior who is Messiah, the Lord.
Luke 2:39 And when they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem), Nazareth.
Luke 4:29 They rose up, drove him out of the town (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem), and took him to a cliff of the hill on which their town (polis | πόλις | nom sg fem) was built, so that they could cast him down.
Luke 4:31 And he went down to Capernaum, a city (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath;
Luke 4:43 but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God in the other towns (polesin | πόλεσιν | dat pl fem) as well; because for this purpose I was sent.”
Luke 5:12 It happened that, when he was in one of the cities (poleōn | πόλεων | gen pl fem), there was a man full of leprosy. And seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
Luke 7:11 It happened soon afterward that Jesus went to a town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.
Luke 7:12 As Jesus approached the gate of the town (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem), a man who had died was being carried out — the only son of his mother (she was a widow). A large crowd was with her.
Luke 7:37 Now there was a woman known in the city (polei | πόλει | dat sg fem) as a sinner, and when she learned that Jesus was reclining at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume,
Luke 8:1 It happened that soon afterward Jesus began to travel around from one town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) and village to another, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve disciples were with him,
Luke 8:4 As a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) after another, he spoke using a parable.
Luke 8:27 When he stepped out on the land, a man from the town (poleōs | πόλεως | gen sg fem) met him, who was possessed by demons, and for a long time had not worn clothes or had lived in a house but among the tombs.
Luke 8:34 When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town (polin | πόλιν | acc sg fem) and in the countryside.