Lexicon kómopolis: a country town Original Word: κωμόπολις, εως, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kómopolis Phonetic Spelling: (ko-mop'-ol-is) Short Definition: a large village Definition: a large village, a city which in constitution has only the status of a village; a country town. HELPS word-Studies 2969 kōmópolis (from 2968 /kṓmē, "village, town" and 4172 /pólis, "a city") – a city with limited (legal) status. A kōmē ("village, unwalled town") was hardly a "city" as we know it. It's status (constitution) really amounted to only a village (Souter). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kómé and polisDefinitiona country town NASB Translationtowns (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2969: κωμόπολιςκωμόπολις, κωμοπολεως, ἡ, a village approximating in size and number of inhabitants to a city, a village-city, a town (German Marktflecken): Mark 1:38. ( Strabo; ( Joshua 18:28 Aq. Theod. (Field)); often in the Byzantine writings of the middle ages.)
Strong's town, unwalled city From kome and polis; an unwalled city -- town. see GREEK kome see GREEK polis |
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