Commonwealth (ISBE)

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kom´un -welth ( πολιτεία , politeı́a ): Spoken of theocracy (Ephesians 2:12 ). The same word is rendered "freedom ," the King James Version; "citizenship" the Revised Version (British and American). Also in the sense of commonwealth in the Apocrypha (2 Macc 4:11; 8:17; 13:14); in the sense of citizenship (3 Macc 3:21, 23). See CITIZENSHIP .