Strong's Concordance G4172

Original Word: πόλις
Transliteration: pólis
Phonetic Spelling: pol'-is
[πόλις] probably from the same as G4171, or perhaps from G4183; a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)

Usages throughout the bible

Acts 16:13 - And on the sabbath we went out of the city G4172 by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

Acts 16:14 - And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city G4172 of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

Acts 16:20 - And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, G4172

Acts 16:39 - And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. G4172

Acts 17:5 - But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city G4172 on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 17:16 - Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city G4172 wholly given to idolatry.

Acts 18:10 - For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. G4172

Acts 19:29 - And the whole city G4172 was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

Acts 19:35 - And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city G4172 of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

Acts 20:23 - Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, G4172 saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

Acts 21:5 - And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: G4172 and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.

Acts 21:29 - (For they had seen before with him in the city G4172 Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

Acts 21:30 - And all the city G4172 was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.

Acts 21:39 - But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: G4172 and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

Acts 22:3 - I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city G4172 at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

Acts 24:12 - And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: G4172

Acts 25:23 - And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, G4172 at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.

Acts 26:11 - And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. G4172

Acts 27:8 - And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city G4172 of Lasea.

Romans 16:23 - Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city G4172 saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

2 Corinthians 11:26 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, G4172 in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

2 Corinthians 11:32 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city G4172 of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

Titus 1:5 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, G4172 as I had appointed thee:

Hebrews 11:10 - For he looked for a city G4172 which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 11:16 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. G4172

Hebrews 12:22 - But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city G4172 of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Hebrews 13:14 - For here have we no continuing city, G4172 but we seek one to come.

James 4:13 - Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, G4172 and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

2 Peter 2:6 - And turning the cities G4172 of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

Jude 1:7 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities G4172 about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Revelation 3:12 - Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city G4172 of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Revelation 11:2 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city G4172 shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Revelation 11:8 - And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, G4172 which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Revelation 11:13 - And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city G4172 fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 14:8 - And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, G4172 because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Revelation 14:20 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, G4172 and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

Revelation 16:19 - And the great city G4172 was divided into three parts, and the cities G4172 of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Revelation 17:18 - And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, G4172 which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Revelation 18:10 - Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city G4172 Babylon, that mighty city! G4172 for in one hour is thy judgment come.

Revelation 18:16 - And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, G4172 that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

Revelation 18:18 - And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! G4172

Revelation 18:19 - And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, G4172 wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Revelation 18:21 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city G4172 Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Revelation 20:9 - And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: G4172 and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Revelation 21:2 - And I John saw the holy city, G4172 new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:10 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, G4172 the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

Revelation 21:14 - And the wall of the city G4172 had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Revelation 21:15 - And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, G4172 and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

Revelation 21:16 - And the city G4172 lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city G4172 with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

Revelation 21:18 - And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city G4172 was pure gold, like unto clear glass.