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

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,