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Koine Greek wordlink #94932

SR GNT Acts 16:11 Πόλιν (Polin) ‘following to New City’ Strongs=41720 Lemma=polis
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=53 AD Event=Call_to_Macedonia TimeSeries=Call_to_Macedonia,Second_Missionary_Journey

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Only use of identical word form Πόλιν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Πόλιν’ (N-AFS) is always and only glossed as ‘City’.

Acts 16:11 ‘following to New City’ SR GNT Acts 16:11 word 22

OET-LV: 11 therefore having _been _launched from Trōias, we _ran _straight to Samothrakaʸ, and on _the_ following _day to New City, (ACT_16:11)

OET-RV: 11 From Troas we sailed directly to Samothrace, and then on to Neapolis the following day. (ACT 16:11)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘polis’ have 11 different glosses: ‘a city’, ‘every city’, ‘the cities’, ‘the city’, ‘for city’, ‘of the city’, ‘of city’, ‘City’, ‘cities’, ‘city’, ‘city was’.

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular