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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