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Lexicon :: Strong's G5561 - chōra

Aa
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 22 times in 22 verses in 'Eze' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - And thou shalt declare mine ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and my statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her: because they have rejected mine ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 - When there are some of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when ye are scattered in the countries;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands wherein I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15 - And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them in the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:34 - I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savour, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries wherein ye have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - (LXX 21:24) And thou, son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth of one country; and there shall be a force at the top of the way of the city, thou shalt set it at the top of the way,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - in their blood which thou hast shed, thou hast transgressed; and in thy devices which thou hast formed, thou hast polluted thyself; and thou hast brought nigh thy days, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and thy uncleanness shall be removed out of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - therefore I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and I will completely cut thee off from out of the countries: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate cities:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13 - And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:10 - Because thou saidst, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:19 - and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries: I judged them according to their way and according to their sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:27 - when I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of the countries of the nations: and I will be sanctified among them in the presence of the nations.
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