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.)