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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 28 times in 28 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:12 - Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went back to 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 a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them light has dawned."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:28 - When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass by that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:5 - All the country of Yehudah and all those of Yerushalayim went out to him. They were immersed by him in the Yarden river, confessing their sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:1 - They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadara.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 5:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:55

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:55 - and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:8 - There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, 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 reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Yehudah, and Herod being tetrarch of the Galil, and his brother Pilipos tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:26 - They arrived at the country of the Gadara, which is opposite Galil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:16 - He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:13 - Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:14 - When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:15 - He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

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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 those who are in Yehudah flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:35 - Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54 - Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Yehudim, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Efrayim. He stayed there with his talmidim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - Now the Pesach of the Yehudim was at hand. Many went up from the country to Yerushalayim before the Pesach, to purify themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:1 - Sha'ul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Yerushalayim in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Yehudah and Shomron, except for the apostles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:39 - We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Yehudim, and in Yerushalayim; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:20 - Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tzor and Tzidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king's chamberlain, their friend, they asked for shalom, because their country depended on the king's country for food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:49

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:49 - The Lord's word was spread abroad throughout all the region.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:6 - When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Ruach HaKodesh to speak the word in Asia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:23 - Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the talmidim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20 - but declared first to them of Dammesek, at Yerushalayim, and throughout all the country of Yehudah, and also to the Goyim, 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 - But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
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