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kom´un-welth (πολιτειÌα, politeıÌa): Spoken of theocracy (). 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.