Original Word: κωμόπολις
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: kómopolis
Pronunciation: ko-MO-po-lis
Phonetic Spelling: (ko-mop'-ol-is)
KJV: town
NASB: towns
Word Origin: [from G2968 (κώμη - village) and G4172 (πόλις - city)]

1. an unwalled city

town, unwalled city

From kome and polis; an unwalled city -- town.

see GREEK kome

see GREEK polis

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).

Word Origin
from kómé and polis
Definition
a country town
NASB Translation
towns (1).

STRONGS NT 2969: κωμόπολις

κωμόπολις, 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.)

Forms and Transliterations

κωμοπολεις κωμοπόλεις komopoleis komopóleis kōmopoleis kōmopóleis

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