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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.)
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 BoxMat 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:12 - After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:16 - the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:28 - When he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:5 - People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:1 - So they came to the other side of the lake, to the region of the Gerasenes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:10 - He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:55

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:55 - They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:8 - Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:1 - In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:26 - So they sailed over to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:16 - He then told them a parable: "The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:13 - After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:14 - Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:15 - So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:12 - Therefore he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:21 - Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:35 - Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54 - Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:1 - And Saul agreed completely with killing him. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:39 - We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:20 - Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the king's personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their country's food supply was provided by the king's country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:49

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:49 - So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:6 - They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:23 - After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20 - but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:27 - When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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