King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4847
Transliteration: sympolitēs
Phonetic Spelling: (soom-pol-ee'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a fellow citizen
Meaning: a fellow citizen
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, Ephesians 2:19. (Euripides, Heracl. 826; Josephus, Antiquities 19, 2, 2; Aelian v. h. 3, 44.)
Word Summary
sympolitēs: a fellow citizen
Original Word: συμπολίτηςTransliteration: sympolitēs
Phonetic Spelling: (soom-pol-ee'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a fellow citizen
Meaning: a fellow citizen
Strong's Concordance
fellow- citizen. From sun and polites; a native of the same town, i.e. (figuratively) co-religionist (fellow-Christian) -- fellow- citizen.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK polites
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4847: συμπολίτηςσυμπολίτης (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, Ephesians 2:19. (Euripides, Heracl. 826; Josephus, Antiquities 19, 2, 2; Aelian v. h. 3, 44.)