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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 130 times in 124 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 10:20–Job 32:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:28 - While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:40 - These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Then he remembered his dreams about them and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see where our land is unprotected.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward[fn] it, and the LORD swept them into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:23 - But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:28 - If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:37 - If, however, the sore is unchanged so far as the priest can see, and if black hair has grown in it, the affected person is healed. They are clean, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:1 - The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - The manna stopped the day after[fn] they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:6 - The LORD’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation on them and afflicted them with tumors.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:4 - Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:5 - All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:29 - On the panels between the uprights were lions, bulls and cherubim—and on the uprights as well. Above and below the lions and bulls were wreaths of hammered work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:10 - As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14 - “But who will do this?” asked Ahab. The prophet replied, “This is what the LORD says: ‘The junior officers under the provincial commanders will do it.’ ” “And who will start the battle?” he asked. The prophet answered, “You will.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:15 - So Ahab summoned the 232 junior officers under the provincial commanders. Then he assembled the rest of the Israelites, 7,000 in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17 - The junior officers under the provincial commanders went out first. Now Ben-Hadad had dispatched scouts, who reported, “Men are advancing from Samaria.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 - The junior officers under the provincial commanders marched out of the city with the army behind them

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:33 - Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:5 - In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:13 - “Do you not know what I and my predecessors have done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 - Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to their own town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - so that a search may be made in the archives of your predecessors. In these records you will find that this city is a rebellious city, troublesome to kings and provinces, a place with a long history of sedition. That is why this city was destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - The king should know that we went to the district of Judah, to the temple of the great God. The people are building it with large stones and placing the timbers in the walls. The work is being carried on with diligence and is making rapid progress under their direction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16 - together with all the silver and gold you may obtain from the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests for the temple of their God in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6 - These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 - “You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 - These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem (now some Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants and descendants of Solomon’s servants lived in the towns of Judah, each on their own property in the various towns,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1 - This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[fn] the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush[fn]:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:22 - He sent dispatches to all parts of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be ruler over his own household, using his native tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:14 - A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai’s orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.[fn] These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:17 - In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:27 - the Jews took it on themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:1 - In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:2 - But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.

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