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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #4176 - πολιτεύομαι

Transliteration

politeúomai

Phonetics

pol-it-yoo'-om-ahee

Origin

middle voice of a derivative of (G4177)

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

6:516,906

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to be a citizen
to administer civil affairs, manage the state
to make or create a citizen
1. to be a citizen
2. to behave as a citizen
  1. to avail one's self of or recognise the laws
  2. to conduct one's self as pledged to some law of life

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 1

BSB (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 1

CSB (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 1

ESV (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 1

KJV (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (4)

Acts 2

Philippians 2

N95 (3)

Acts 2

Philippians 1

NAS (3)

Acts 2

Philippians 1

NLT (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 2

WEB (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 1

YLT (2)

Acts 1

Philippians 1

ASV (2)

have lived 1

let your manner of life 1

BSB (2)

conduct yourselves 1

have conducted myself 1

CSB (2)

life 1

lived 1

ESV (2)

life 2

KJV (2)

be 1

lived 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (4)

life 1

live 1

lived 1

lives 1

N95 (3)

conduct 1

life 1

lived 1

NAS (3)

conduct 1

life 1

lived 1

NLT (2)

conducting 1

lived 1

WEB (2)

have lived 1

let your way of life 1

YLT (2)

conduct 1

have lived 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

ANT

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

BEZ

V-PPM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

BGB

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

BMT

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

BYZ

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

ELZ

V-PMD-2P 1

V-XMI-1S 1

NA26

V-1XMIS 1

V-2PMDP 1

SBL

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

SCV

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

STV

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

TIS

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RPI-1S 1

V-PNM-2P 1

V-RMI-1S 1

TRG

V-PMD-2P 1

V-XMI-1S 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

πολιτευομαι

Middle voice of a derivative of G4177

Thayer's Expanded Definition

πολιτεύω: middle (cf. Winer's Grammar, 260 (244)), present imperative 2 person plural πολιτεύεσθε; perfect πεπολίτευμαι; (πολίτης);

1. to be a citizen (Thucydides, Xenophon, Lysias, Polybius, others).

2. to administer civil affairs, manage the state (Thucydides, Xenophon).

3. to make or create a citizen (Diodorus 11, 72); middle a. to be a citizen; so in the passages from Philo and the Ep. ad Diogn. cited in πολίτευμα, 3.

b. to behave as a citizen; to avail oneself of or recognize the laws; so from Thucydides down; in Hellenistic writings to conduct oneself as pledged to some law of life: ἀξίως τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, Philippians 1:27 (R. V. text let your manner of life be worthy of etc.); ἀξίως τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Polycarp, ad Philip. 5, 2 [ET]; ἀξίως τοῦ Θεοῦ, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 21, 1 [ET]; ὁσίως, ibid. 6, 1 [ET]; κατά τό καθῆκον τῷ Χριστῷ, ibid. 3, 4 [ET]; μετά φοβοῦ καί ἀγάπης, ibid. 51, 2 [ET]; ἐννόμως, Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho,

c. 67; ἠρξάμην πολιτεύεσθαι τῇ Φαρισαίων ἁιρεσει κατακολουθῶν, Josephus, Vita2; other phrases are cited by Grimm on 2 Macc. 6:1; τῷ Θεῷ, to live in accordance with the laws of God, Acts 23:1 (A. V. I have lived etc.).

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** τολιτεύω ,

more freq. as depon., -ομαι , and so in LXX and NT

(< πολίτης ),

[in LXX: Ezra 8:13, 2 Maccabees 6:1; 2 Maccabees 11:25, 3 Maccabees 3:4; *;]

to be a citizen, live as a citizen: metaph., of conduct as based on heavenly citizenship, Acts 23:1, Philippians 1:27.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

List of Word Forms

πεπολιτευμαι πεπολίτευμαι πολιτευεσθε πολιτεύεσθε pepoliteumai pepolíteumai politeuesthe politeúesthe