Quick Definition
πολίτης, ου, ὁ n.m. a citizen
Strong's Definition
from 4172; a townsman
KJV Usage: citizen
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου | πολιτεύομαι
11.68 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · Socio-Political
citizen a person having full status as a member of a socio-political unit of people In a number of languages a citizen may be described as ‘a person who belongs to that country’ or ‘one who is a part of the people of that country’ or ‘one who is counted as a person of that country,’ but one could be a citizen of a country without necessarily living in such a geographical area.
In HEB 8:11 (καὶ οὐ μὴ διδάξωσιν ἕκαστος τὸν πολίτην αὐτοῦ ‘none of them will have to teach his fellow citizen’) πολίτης occurs with the possessive pronoun αὐτοῦ and hence is therefore equivalent to συμπολίτης (11.72) in meaning.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πολίτης, -ov, ὁ, (πόλις), fr. Hom. down, α citizen; i. 6. a. the inhabitant of any city or country: πόλεως, Acts xxi. 393; τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης, Lk. xv. 15. b. the associate of another in citizenship, i 6. a fellow-citizen, fellow-countryman, (Plat. apol. p. 37 ¢.; al.): with the gen. of a person, Lk. xix. 14; Heb. viii. 11 (where Rec. πολλακις δ has τὸν πλησίον) fr. Jer. xxxviii. (xxxi.) 34, where it is used for 9, as in Prov. xi. 9, 12; xxiv. 43 (28).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πολίτης politēs 4x
a citizen, Lk. 15:15; 19:14; Acts 21:39; Heb. 8:11*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πολίτης, -ου, ὁ
(< πόλις), [in LXX chiefly for רֵעַ;]
a citizen: c. gen. loc., Lk 15:15, Ac 21:39.
a fellow-citizen: c. gen. pers., Lk 19:14, He 8:11(LXX).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πολίτης. It is hardly necessary to illustrate this common word, but reference may be made to P Oxy I. 65° (iii/iv a.p.), where a benefictarius sends an order to the comarchs of the village Teruthis—trapabdote τῷ ἀποσταλέντι ὑπηρέτῃ] Παχοῦμιν ΤΙαχούμις(-ειος) ὃν κατεσχήκατε σήμερον καὶ κατηνέγκατε ἐν τῇ κώμῃ ὑμῶν πολίτην ὄντα, ‘‘ deliver up to my officer whom I have sent Pachoumis, son of Pachoumis, whom you have arrested to-day and brought to your village, being a citizen’’ (Edd.). See also the sepulchral epitaph, Aazde/ 718?, in which an inhabitant of Ephesus describes himself as peya[Ans θεοῦ εἰμι πολ]είτης. For the adj. πολιτικός cf. P Tebt I. 5257 (B.c. 118) τοὺς πρὸς χρείαις πάντας τῶν τε βασιλικῶν Kal πολιτικῶν καὶ ἱερευτικῶν, ‘‘all who are in charge of the Crown, State or sacred interests’’: see the editors’ note. In support of their contention that πολιτική in P Grenf II. 73° (late iii/A.D.) denotes a woman of bad character (πόρνη), the editors are now able to appeal to P Oxy VI. 9037 (iv/a.p.) μετὰ μῆναν λαμβάνω πολιτικὴν ἐμαυτῷ, ‘a month hence I will take a mistress.’’ Deissmann (2 22:26 of Psenosiris, p. 30f., ZAZ, p. 201) prefers to regard the word asa proper name Πολιτική : cf. Selectzons, p. 117 ff. See also Archiv Vili. p. 60, where the name is associated with the social rank of the woman as a ‘‘ citizeness.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πολίτης (politēs) — citizen. πολῑτ-ης, ου, ὁ, Ionic dialect πολιήτης (which see), citizen, freeman, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πόλεως, πόλεων π., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. fellow-citizen (compare πολιήτης), [Refs 7th c.BC+]: and by a Comedy texts metaphorically, οἴνου π. ὢν κρατίστου [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. adjective belonging to, connected with one's city or country, θεοὶ πολῖται, ={πολιοῦχοι}, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. δῆμος, ={ὁ τῆς πόλεως}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]