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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 27 times in 27 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:12 - And being warned by God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:16 - The people who sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:28 - And when he had come to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:5 - And there went out to him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:1 - And they came over to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:10 - And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:8 - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:1 - Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanius the tetrarch of Abilene,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:26 - And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:16 - And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:13 - And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:14 - And when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:15 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:12 - He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:21 - Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them who are in the midst of it depart from it; and let not them that are in the countries enter into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:35 - Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54 - Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence to a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:1 - And Saul was consenting to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:39 - And we are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:20 - And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon. But they came with one accord to him, and having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace, because their country was nourished by the king's country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:49 - And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:6 - Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:23 - And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20 - But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:27 - When the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen suspected that they drew near to some country:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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