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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 Box Eze 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 - Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34 - And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23 - And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26 - And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13 - And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:10 - Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:19 - And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:27 - When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
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