πόλις

The 7 distinct written forms G4172 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
πόλιν pólin	Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine	Matthew 2:23	65
πόλεως póleōs	Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine	Matthew 10:14	36
πόλις pólis	Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine	Matthew 5:14	22
πόλει pólei	Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine	Matthew 10:15	21
πόλεις póleis	Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine	Matthew 9:35	12
πόλεων póleōn	Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine	Matthew 14:13	6
πόλεσιν pólesin	Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine	Matthew 11:1	2

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4172, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• πολεμος pólemos G4171 war

Shares the same root

• πολεμεω poleméō G4170 to war

Derived from this word

• πολιταρχης politárchēs G4173 city ruler
• πολιτης polítēs G4177 citizen

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

The same Greek word πολις appears 1,226 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,053 verses in 36 books.

1,226

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

1,053

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

36 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 4:17 πόλις
• Exodus 1:11 πόλις
• Leviticus 14:40 πόλις
• Numbers 13:19 πόλις
• Deuteronomy 1:22 πόλις
• Joshua 2:14 πόλις
• Judges 1:8 πόλις
• Ruth 1:19 πόλις
• 1 Samuel 1:3 πόλις
• 2 Samuel 2:1 πόλις
• 1 Kings 1:41 πόλις
• 2 Kings 2:19 πόλις

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4172) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,053. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 4:17 πόλις Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
• Genesis 10:11 πόλις Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
• Genesis 10:12 πόλις and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
• Genesis 11:4 πόλις They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
• Genesis 11:5 πόλις Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
• Genesis 11:8 πόλις So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
• Genesis 13:12 πόλις Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
• Genesis 14:5 πόλις In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
• Genesis 18:24 πόλις What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?
• Genesis 18:26 πόλις Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
• Genesis 18:28 πόλις What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
• Genesis 19:4 πόλις But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
• Genesis 19:12 πόλις The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
• Genesis 19:14 πόλις Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
• Genesis 19:15 πόλις When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
• Genesis 19:20 πόλις See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
• Genesis 19:21 πόλις He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
• Genesis 19:22 πόλις Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
• Genesis 19:25 πόλις He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
• Genesis 19:29 πόλις It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
• Genesis 20:2 πόλις Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
• Genesis 22:17 πόλις that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
• Genesis 23:2 πόλις Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
• Genesis 23:10 πόλις Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
• Genesis 23:18 πόλις to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
• Genesis 24:10 πόλις The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
• Genesis 24:11 πόλις He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
• Genesis 24:13 πόλις Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
• Genesis 24:43 πόλις Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.
• Genesis 24:60 πόλις They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
• Genesis 26:33 πόλις He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
• Genesis 28:19 πόλις He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
• Genesis 33:18 πόλις Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
• Genesis 34:20 πόλις Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
• Genesis 34:24 πόλις All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
• Genesis 34:25 πόλις It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
• Genesis 34:27 πόλις Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
• Genesis 34:28 πόλις They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
• Genesis 34:29 πόλις and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
• Genesis 35:5 πόλις They traveled: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
• Genesis 35:27 πόλις Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
• Genesis 36:32 πόλις Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.
• Genesis 36:35 πόλις Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
• Genesis 36:39 πόλις Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
• Genesis 41:35 πόλις Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
• Genesis 41:45 πόλις Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
• Genesis 41:48 πόλις He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.
• Genesis 41:50 πόλις To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
• Genesis 44:4 πόλις When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
• Genesis 44:13 πόλις Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4172) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.