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This is the premium edition of this famous Bible study classic. It includes not only Vine’s famous New Testament dictionary, but an extensive Old Testament counterpart as well, edited by Merrill F. Unger, the famous Old Testament scholar. All entries in both O.T. and N.T. dictionaries are organized alphabetically in English, along with the Hebrew or Greek words from which they are translated....

1. polites (πολίτης, 4177), “a member of a city or state, or the inhabitant of a country or district,” Luke 15:15, is used elsewhere in Luke 19:14; Acts 21:39, and, in the most authentic mss., in Heb. 8:11 (where some texts have plesion, “a neighbor”). Apart from Heb. 8:11, the word occurs only in the writings of Luke (himself a Greek).¶ 2. sumpolites (συμπολίτης, 4847), sun, “with,” and No. 1, denotes “a fellow-citizen,” i.e., possessing the same “citizenship,” Eph. 2:19, used metaphorically