G4172
πόλις
pólis
a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)
Lexicon
Derivation: probably from the same as G4171 (πόλεμος), or perhaps from G4183 (πολύς);
a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: city
Usage
165 occurrences · 0 OT · 165 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- city60 · 37%
- the city53 · 32%
- of the city13 · 8%
- a city12 · 7%
- the cities10 · 6%
- cities8 · 5%
- unto the city2 · 1%
- any city1 · 1%
- belonging to the city1 · 1%
- to the city1 · 1%
- out of the cities1 · 1%
- the same city1 · 1%
- how that the city1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
πόλιν50πόλεως29πόλις22πόλει21πόλεις10πόλιν,7πόλεως,5πόλιν.3πόλεων3πόλεσιν2πόλεων.¶2πόλιν.¶2
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.