Quick Definition
a fellow citizen
Strong's Definition
a native of the same town, i.e. (figuratively) co-religionist (fellow-Christian)
Derivation: from G4862 (σύν) and G4177 (πολίτης);
KJV Usage: fellow- citizen
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
συμπολίτης (T WH συνπολιτης (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συμπολιτου, ὁ (see συμμαθητής and references), possessing the same citizenship with others, a fellow-citizen: συμπολῖται τῶν ἁγίων, spoken of Gentiles as received into the communion of the saints i. e. of the people consecrated to God, opposed to ξένοι καί πάροικοι, Eph_2:19. (Euripides, Heracl. 826; Josephus, Antiquities 19, 2, 2; Aelian v. h. 3, 44.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
συμπολίτης sympolitēs 1x
a fellow citizen, met. Eph_2:19
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* συν -πολίτης
( Rec. σνμπ -), -ου , ὁ ,
a fellow-citizen: pl ., σ . τ . ἁγίων , opp . to ξένοι κ . πάροικοι , Eph_2:19 ( Eur .; C .I., 6446; condemned by Atticists; v. Rutherford, NPhr. , 255 f .).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
συνπολίτης (~ συμπολίτης ) [page 612]
fellow-citizen, a comp d . condemned by the Atticists (Rutherford NP p. 255 f.), but found in Eph_2:19 : cf. BGU II. 632 .9 (ii/A.D.) παρὰ Ἀντωνε [ί ]νου τοῦ συνπολ [ε ]ίτου ἡμῶν , Preisigke 4317 .26 ( c . A.D. 200) ὕβρισμαι . . παρὰ πάντων τῶν συμπολιτῶν , and P Oxy VIII. 1119 .19 (A.D. 254) συμ ]πολεῖται ἡμέτεροι προσῆλθον ἡμεῖν διὰ βιβλειδίων , our fellow-citizens have approached us in a petition (Ed.).
The verb occurs in what appears to be a school exercise written on the verso of P Oxy I. 79 (A.D. 181 192), where, after a reference to the death of someone, the writer continues σὺν τοῖς σ [τρ ]ατιώταις . . . συμπολιτευόμεθα . See also OGIS 143 .6 (B.C. 146 116), with note.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
συμπολίτης συμ-πολί_της, ου, ὁ, "a fellow-citizen", Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
συν-πολίτης (Rec. σνμπ-), -ου, ὁ
a fellow-citizen: pl., σ. τ. ἁγίων, opposite to ξένοι κ. πάροικοι, Eph.2:19 (Eur.; C.I., 6446; condemned by Atticists; see Rutherford, NPhr., 255 f.).†
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