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Lexicon :: Strong's G5561 - chōra

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χώρα
Transliteration
chōra (Key)
Pronunciation
kho'-rah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of the base of χάσμα (G5490) through the idea of empty expanse
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Strong’s Definitions

χώρα chṓra, kho'-rah; feminine of a derivative of the base of G5490 through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants):—coast, county, fields, ground, land, region. Compare G5117.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G5561 in the following manner: country (15x), region (5x), land (3x), field (2x), ground (1x), coast (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G5561 in the following manner: country (15x), region (5x), land (3x), field (2x), ground (1x), coast (1x).

  1. the space lying between two places or limits

  2. a region or country i.e. a tract of land

    1. the (rural) region surrounding a city or village, the country

    2. the region with towns and villages which surround a metropolis

  3. land which is ploughed or cultivated, ground

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
χώρα chṓra, kho'-rah; feminine of a derivative of the base of G5490 through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants):—coast, county, fields, ground, land, region. Compare G5117.
STRONGS G5561:
χώρα, χώρας, ἡ (ΧΑΩ (cf. Curtius, § 179), to lie open, be ready to receive), from Homer down, the Sept. for אֶרֶץ, מְדִינָה 'a province';
1. properly, the space lying between two places or limits.
2. a region or country; i. e. a tract of land: ἡ χώρα ἐγγύς τῆς ἐρήμου, John 11:54; (in an elliptical phrase, ἡ ἀστραπή (ἡ) ἀστράπτουσα ἐκ τῆς ὑπό τόν οὐρανόν εἰς τήν ὑπ' οὐρανόν λάμπει, A. V. part... part, Luke 17:24 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 64, 5); on the ellipsis of χώρα in other phrases (ἐξ ἀναντιας, ἐν δεξιά, etc.), see Winers Grammar, the passage cited; Buttmann, 82 (72)); land as opposed to the sea, Acts 27:27; land as inhabited, a province or country, Mark 5:10; (Mark 6:55 L marginal reading T Tr WH); Luke 15:13-15; Luke 19:12; Acts 13:49; with a genitive of the name of the region added: Τραχωνίτιδος, Luke 3:1; τῆς Ἰουδαίας, Acts 26:20; ((or an equivalent adjective)) Γαλατικη, Acts 16:6; Acts 18:23; τῶν Ἰουδαίων, Acts 10:39; plural τῆς Ἰουδαίας καί Σαμαρείας (A. V. regions), Acts 8:1; ἐν χώρα καί σκιά θανάτου, in a region of densest darkness (see σκιά, a), Matthew 4:16; τίνος, the country of one, Matthew 2:12; χώρα for its inhabitants, Mark 1:5; Acts 12:20; the (rural) region environing a city or village, the country, Luke 2:8; Γεργεσηνῶν, Γερασηνῶν, Γαδαρηνῶν, Matthew 8:28; Mark 5:1; Luke 8:26; the region with towns and villages which surrounds the metropolis, John 11:55.
3. land which is plowed or cultivated, ground: Luke 12:16; plural, Luke 21:21 (R. V. country); John 4:35 (A. V. fields); James 5:4 (A. V. fields). (Synonym: see τόπος, at the end.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:12; 4:16; 8:28
Mark
1:5; 5:1; 5:10; 6:55
Luke
2:8; 3:1; 8:26; 12:16; 15:13; 15:14; 15:15; 17:24; 19:12; 21:21
John
4:35; 11:54; 11:55
Acts
8:1; 10:39; 12:20; 13:49; 16:6; 18:23; 26:20; 27:27
James
5:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5561 matches the Greek χώρα (chōra),
which occurs 22 times in 22 verses in 'Eze' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 -

“This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have placed her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - ‘But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked [fn]in My statutes.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 -

“However, I will leave a remnant, in that you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - “Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them for a little while in the countries where they had gone.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - “Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15 - “So they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 -

‘Then nations set against him

On every side from their provinces,

And they spread their net over him;

He was caught in their trap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - “Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34 - “I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - “[fn]As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will show Myself to be holy among you in the sight of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Now as for you, son of man, [fn]make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And [fn]make a signpost; [fn]make it at the head of the way to the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - “You have become guilty by [fn]the blood which you have shed, and you have become defiled by your idols which you have made. So you have brought your days closer and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a disgrace to the nations, and an object of mocking to all the lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - “And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the lands, and I will eliminate your uncleanness from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - therefore, behold, I have reached out with My hand against you and I will give you as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and eliminate you from the lands. I will exterminate you. So you will know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of deserted lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate for forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 -

“They will be desolate

In the midst of the desolated lands;

And her cities will be

In the midst of the devastated cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23 - ‘And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26 - ‘When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13 - “I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:10 -

“Since you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess [fn]them,’ although the LORD was there,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:19 - “I also scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:27 - “When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall show Myself holy [fn]through them in the sight of the many nations.
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