The Koine Bible

Greek Lexicon

SBL Greek New Testament lexicon

Πόλις

LemmaΠόλις
Citation formΝέα~Πόλις
Part of speechnoun
GlossPolis (a city in Locris)
Strong’sG4172
Transliterationpólis
Definitiona town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)
KJV glosses:--city.
Derivationprobably from the same as , or perhaps from
SBLGNT occurrences1

Forms and grammatical context

Each form is parsed from its actual MorphGNT occurrence; a form may have more than one analysis depending on context.

Greek formGrammar and occurrences
Πόλιν
noun, accusative, singular, feminine (MorphGNT ----ASF-)Acts 16:11

Morphology

Occurrences

Septuagint occurrences

The same normalized Greek lemma occurs in the Rahlfs Septuagint: πολις.