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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.)
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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 divinely instructed in a dream not to 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 sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:28 - And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:5

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:1 - And they came to the other side of the sea, to 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 shepherds in that country abiding without, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:1 - Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:26 - And they arrived in 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 land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:13 - And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:14 - But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, 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 one of the citizens 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 high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:21 - Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:35 - Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54 - Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:1 - And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:39 - *We* also are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also slew, having hanged him on a cross.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:20 - And he was in bitter hostility with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:49

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:49 - And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:6 - And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:23 - And having stayed there some time, he went forth, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20 - but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:27 - And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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