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Lexicon :: Strong's G5117 - topos

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τόπος
Transliteration
topos (Key)
Pronunciation
top'-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 8:187,1184

Strong’s Definitions

τόπος tópos, top'-os; apparently a primary word; a spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas G5561 is a large but participle locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively, condition, opportunity; specially, a scabbard:—coast, licence, place, × plain, quarter, + rock, room, where.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x

The KJV translates Strong's G5117 in the following manner: place (80x), room (5x), quarter (2x), licence (1x), coast (1x), where (1x), plain (with G3977) (1x), rock (with G5138) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x
The KJV translates Strong's G5117 in the following manner: place (80x), room (5x), quarter (2x), licence (1x), coast (1x), where (1x), plain (with G3977) (1x), rock (with G5138) (1x).
  1. place, any portion or space marked off, as it were from surrounding space

    1. an inhabited place, as a city, village, district

    2. a place (passage) in a book

  2. metaph.

    1. the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly

    2. opportunity, power, occasion for acting

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
τόπος tópos, top'-os; apparently a primary word; a spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas G5561 is a large but participle locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively, condition, opportunity; specially, a scabbard:—coast, licence, place, × plain, quarter, + rock, room, where.
STRONGS G5117:
τόπος, τόπου, , in Attic from Aeschylus and his contemporaries on; the Sept. מָקום; place; i. e.:
1. properly, any portion of space marked off, as it were, from surrounding, space; used of
a. an inhabited place, as a city, village, district: Luke 4:37; Luke 10:1; Acts 12:12; Acts 16:3; Acts 27:2, 8; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; Revelation 18:17 (G L T Tr WH); τόν τόπον καί τό ἔθνος, the place which the nation inhabit, i. e. the holy land and the Jewish people, John 11:48 (cf. 2 Macc. 5:19f); τόπος ἅγιος, the temple (which the Sept. of Isa. Ix. 13 calls ἅγιος τόπος τοῦ Θεοῦ), Matthew 24:15. of a house, Acts 4:31. of uninhabited places, with adjectives: ἔρημος, Matthew 14:13, 15; Mark 1:35; Mark 6:31; Luke 4:42; Luke 9:10 R G L, 12; πεδινός, Luke 6:17; ἄνυδρος, plural, Matthew 12:43; Luke 11:24. of any place whatever: κατά τόπους (R. V. in divers places) i. e. the world over (but see κατά, II. 3 a. α.), Matthew 24:7; Mark 13:8; (ἐν παντί τόπῳ, 2 Thessalonians 3:16 Lachmann); of places in the sea, τραχεῖς τόποι, Acts 27:29 (R. V. rocky ground); τόπος διθάλασσος (A. V. place where two seas met); Acts 27:41. of that 'place' where what is narrated occurred: Luke 10:32; Luke 19:5; Luke 22:40; John 5:13; John 6:10; John 18:2. of a place or spot where one can settle, abide, dwell: ἑτοιμάζειν τίνι τόπον, John 14:2f, cf. Revelation 12:6; ἔχειν τόπον, a place to dwell in, Revelation, the passage cited; οὐκ ἦν αὐτοῖς τόπος ἐν τῷ καταλύματι, Luke 2:7; διδόναι τίνι τόπον, to give one place, give way to one, Luke 14:9a; τόπος οὐχ εὑρέθη αὐτοῖς, Revelation 20:11; of the seat which one gets in any gathering, as at a feast, Luke 14:10; τήν ἔσχατον τόπον, κατέχειν, Luke 14:9b; of the place or spot occupied by things placed in it, John 20:7. the particular place referred to is defined by I the words appended: — by a genitive, τόπος τῆς βασάνου, Luke 16:28; τῆς καταπαύσεώς, Acts 7:49; κρανίου, Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17; (τόν τόπον τῶν ἥλων, John 20:25b L T Tr marginal reading); — by the addition of οὗ, ὅπου, ἐφ' or ἐν , followed by finite verbs, Matthew 28:6; Mark 16:6; John 4:20; John 6:23; John 10:40; John 11:6, 30.; John 19:41; Acts 7:33; Romans 9:26; — by the addition of a proper name: τόπος λεγόμενος, or καλούμενος, Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; Luke 23:33; John 19:13; Revelation 16:16; τόπος τίνος, the place which a person or thing occupies or has a right to: Revelation 2:5; Revelation 6:14; Revelation 12:8; where a thing is hidden, τῆς μαχαίρας, i. e. its sheath, Matthew 26:52. the abode assigned by God to one after death wherein to receive his merited portion of bliss or of misery: ( ἴδιος τίνος (τίνος), universally, Ignatius ad Magnes. 5, 1 [ET] (cf. αἰώνιος τόπος, Tobit 3:6)); applied to Gehenna, Acts 1:25 (see ἴδιος, 1 c.); ὀφειλόμενος τόπος, of heaven, Polycarp, ad Philip. 9, 2 [ET]; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 5, 4 [ET]; also ἅγιος τόπος, ibid. 5, 7 [ET]; ( ὡρισμένος τόπος the Epistle of Barnabas 19, 1 [ET]; Act. Paul et Thecl. 28; see especially Harnack's note on Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 5, 4 [ET]).
b. a place (passage) in a book: Luke 4:17 (καί ἐν ἄλλῳ τόπῳ φησίν, Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 20 ((but this is doubtful; cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 4; yet cf. Kühner, ad loc.); Philo de Joseph., § 26; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 8, 4 [ET]); in the same sense χώρα in Josephus, Antiquities 1, 8, 3).
2. metaphorically,
a. the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly: ἀναπληρουν τόν τόπον τοῦ ἰδιώτου (R. V. filleth the place of the unlearned), 1 Corinthians 14:16; τῆς διακονίας ταύτης καί ἀποστολῆς (R. V. the place in this ministry, etc.), Acts 1:25 L T Tr WH.
b. opportunity, power, occasion for acting: τόπον λαμβάνειν τῆς ἀπολογίας, opportunity to make his defense, Acts 25:16 (ἔχειν τῆς ἀπολογίας, Josephus, Antiquities 16, 8, 5); τόπον διδόναι τῇ ὀργή (namely, τοῦ Θεοῦ), Romans 12:19; τῷ δαιβόλω, Ephesians 4:27 (τῷ ἰατρῷ, to his curative efforts in one's case, Sir. 38:12; νόμῳ ὑψίστου, Sir. 19:17; τόπον διδόναι τινα, followed by an infinitive, Sir. 4:5); τόπος μετανοίας εὑρίσκειν, Hebrews 12:17, on this passage, see εὑρίσκω, 3 (διδόναι. Wis. 12:10; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 7, 5 [ET]; Latinlocum relinquere paenitentiae, Livy 44, 10; 24, 26; (Pliny, epistle ad Trajan 96 (97), 10 cf. 2); ἔχειν τόπον μετανοίας, Tat. or. ad Graec. 15 at the end; διά τό μή καταλείπεσθαι σφισις τόπον ἐλέους μηδέ συγγνωμης, Polybius 1, 88, 2); τόπον ἔχειν namely, τοῦ εὐαγγελίζεσθαι, Romans 15:23; ἐζητεῖτο τόπος, with a genitive of the thing for which influence is sought among men: διαθήκης, passive Hebrews 8:7 ((cf. μέμφομαι)). [SYNONYMS: τόπος 1, χώρα, χωρίον: τόπος place, indefinite; a portion of space viewed in reference to its occupancy, or as appropriated to a thing; χώρα region, country, extensive; space, yet bounded; χωρίον parcel of ground (John 4:5), circumscribed; a definite portion of space viewed as enclosed or complete in itself; τόπος and χωρίον (plural, R. V. lands) occur together in Acts 28:7. Cf. Schmidt, chapter 41.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
12:43; 14:13; 14:15; 24:7; 24:15; 26:52; 27:33; 27:33; 28:6
Mark
1:35; 6:31; 13:8; 15:22; 15:22; 16:6
Luke
2:7; 4:17; 4:37; 4:42; 6:17; 9:10; 10:1; 10:32; 11:24; 14:9; 14:9; 14:10; 16:28; 19:5; 22:40; 23:33
John
4:5; 4:20; 5:13; 6:10; 6:23; 10:40; 11:6; 11:30; 11:48; 14:2; 18:2; 19:13; 19:17; 19:41; 20:7; 20:25
Acts
1:25; 1:25; 4:31; 7:33; 7:49; 12:12; 16:3; 25:16; 27:2; 27:8; 27:29; 27:41; 28:7
Romans
9:26; 12:19; 15:23
1 Corinthians
1:2; 5; 5:4; 14:16
2 Corinthians
2:14
Ephesians
4:27
1 Thessalonians
1:8
2 Thessalonians
3:16
Hebrews
8:7; 12:17
Revelation
2:5; 6:14; 12:6; 12:8; 16:16; 18:17; 20:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5117 matches the Greek τόπος (topos),
which occurs 20 times in 19 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:5 -

Then the LORD will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1 -

I will sing about the one I love,

a song about my loved one’s vineyard:

The one I love had a vineyard

on a very fertile hill.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:23 -

And on that day

every place where there were a thousand vines,

worth a thousand pieces of silver,

will become thorns and briers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 -

And the LORD of Armies will brandish a whip against him as he did when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the sea as he did in Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 -

The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and will rule over their oppressors.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 -

At that time a gift will be brought to the LORD of Armies from[fn] a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers ​— ​to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of Armies.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:23 -

“I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s family.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:25 -

“On that day” ​— ​the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 -

Then he will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:14 -

The sinners in Zion are afraid;

trembling seizes the ungodly:

“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?

Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21 -

For the majestic one, our LORD, will be there,

a place of rivers and broad streams

where ships that are rowed will not go,

and majestic vessels will not pass.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 -

“I have not spoken in secret,

somewhere in a land of darkness.

I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:

Seek me in a wasteland.

I am the LORD, who speaks righteously,

who declares what is right.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 -

“They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along;

they set it in its place, and there it stands;

it does not budge from its place.

They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;

it saves no one from his trouble.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:16 -

“Approach me and listen to this.

From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;

from the time anything existed, I was there.”

And now the Lord GOD

has sent me and his Spirit.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:20 -

“Yet as you listen, the children

that you have been deprived of will say,

‘This place is too small for me;

make room for me so that I may settle.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:2 -

“Enlarge the site of your tent,

and let your tent curtains be stretched out;

do not hold back;

lengthen your ropes,

and drive your pegs deep.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:5 -

“I will give them, in my house and within my walls,

a memorial and a name

better than sons and daughters.

I will give each of them an everlasting name

that will never be cut off.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:13 -

The glory of Lebanon will come to you —

its pine, elm, and cypress together —

to beautify the place of my sanctuary,

and I will glorify my dwelling place.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:1 -

This is what the LORD says:

Heaven is my throne,

and earth is my footstool.

Where could you possibly build a house for me?

And where would my resting place be?

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