STRONGS G4174:
πολιτεία,
πολιτείας,
ἡ (
πολιτεύω);
1. the administration of civil affairs (
Xenophon, mem. 3, 9, 15;
Aristophanes,
Aeschines,
Demosthenes (others)).
2. a state, commonwealth (2 Macc. 4:11 2Macc. 8:17 2Macc. 13:14;
Xenophon,
Plato,
Thucydides (others)): with a genitive of the possessor,
τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, spoken of the theocratic or divine commonwealth,
Ephesians 2:12.
3. citizenship, the rights of a citizen (some make this sense the primary one):
Acts 22:28 (3Macc. 3:21, 23;
Herodotus 9, 34;
Xenophon, Hell. 1, 1, 26; 1, 2, 10; (4, 4, 6, etc.);
Demosthenes,
Polybius,
Diodorus,
Josephus, others).
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