Greek noun (feminine) · G5561
χώρα
chorakho'-rah
most frequently in cl., a space, place.; land, i.e.
28 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chṓra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5561is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5561
room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants)
The King James renders it: coast, county, fields, ground, land, region.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chora is rendered "most frequently in cl., a space, place.; land, i.e.". It stands 28 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "most frequently in cl., a space, place.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 2:12And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
Matthew 2:12χώραν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: most frequently in cl., a space, place., and land, i.e..
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| most frequently in cl., a space, place. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 2:12And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod… |
| land, i.e.__(a) a land, country, region | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 12:2When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χώραν14
- χώρας8
- χώρᾳ3
- χώρα2
- χώραις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular14N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular5N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural3N-APF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular3N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF
Matthew
three uses
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: country
the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
- χώρᾳchoranoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: land
When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, He was met by two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
Mark
four uses
People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- χώραchoranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: region
On the other side of the sea, they arrived in the region of the Gerasenes.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of that region.
- χώραςchorasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: country
and ran through that whole region, carrying the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
Luke
nine uses
And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.
- χώρᾳchoranoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: region
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
- χώραςchorasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: region
Then they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, across the lake from Galilee.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
- χώραchoranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: ground
After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a country
After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: country
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
- χώραςchorasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: country
So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a country
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.
- χώραιςchoraisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: countries
John
three uses
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
- χώραςchorasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: fields
As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
- χώραςchorasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: region
Acts
eight uses
And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
- χώραςchorasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: regions
We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,
- χώρᾳchoranoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: region
Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
And the word of the Lord spread throughout that region.
- χώραςchorasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: region
After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
After Paul had spent some time in Antioch, he traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
- χώρανchorannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: land
James
one use
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
- χώραςchorasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: fields
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.