χώρα, -ας, ἡ [in LXX for אֶרֶץ, מְדִינָה, etc. ;] 1. most frequently in cl., a space, place. 2. land, i.e. (a) a land, country, region: Mat.12:2, Mrk.5:10 6:55, Luk.2:8 15:13-15 19:12, Jhn.11:54, Act.13:49 27:27; χ. Γαλατική, Act.16:6 18:23; Τραχωνίτιδος, Luk.3:1; τ. Ἰουδαίας, Act.26:20; τ. Ἰουδαίων, Act.10:39; pl., τῆς Ἰουδαίας κ. Σαμαρείας, Act.8:1; Γεργεσηνῶν (Γερασηνῶν, Γαδαρηνῶν) Mat.8:28, Mrk.5:1, Luk.8:26; ἐν χ. καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτου, Mat.4:16; (b) land, property: Luk.12:16; (with) the country, opposite to the town; so in pl., Luk.21:21, Jhn.4:35, Jas.5:4.† SYN.: ἄγρος, τόπος (cf. DCG, i, 591a; LS, see word χώρα, ad init.). (AS)
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G5561 — χώρα
chōra · country · Greek
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Matthew 2:12 · χώρανAnd being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.Matthew 4:16 · χώρᾳThe people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.Matthew 8:28 · χώρανAnd when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming forth out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man could pass by that way.Mark 1:5 · χώραAnd there went out unto him all the country of Judæa, and all they of Jerusalem; and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.Mark 5:1 · χώρανAnd they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.Mark 5:10 · χώρας.And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.Mark 6:55 · χώρανand ran round about that whole region, and began to carry about on their beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.Luke 2:8 · χώρᾳAnd there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.Luke 3:1 · χώραςNow in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituræa and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,Luke 8:26 · χώρανAnd they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is over against Galilee.Luke 12:16 · χώρα.And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:Luke 15:13 · χώρανAnd not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.Luke 15:14 · χώρανAnd when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.Luke 15:15 · χώραςAnd he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.Luke 19:12 · χώρανHe said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.Luke 21:21 · χώραιςThen let them that are in Judæa flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter therein.John 4:35 · χώραςSay not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.John 11:54 · χώρανJesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples.John 11:55 · χώραςNow the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves.Acts 8:1 · χώραςAnd Saul was consenting unto his death.And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles.Acts 10:39 · χώρᾳAnd we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom also they slew, hanging him on a tree.Acts 12:20 · χώρανNow he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was fed from the king’s country.Acts 13:49 · χώρας.And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout all the region.Acts 16:6 · χώρανAnd they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;Acts 18:23 · χώρανAnd having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.Acts 26:20 · χώρανbut declared both to them of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judæa, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.Acts 27:27 · χώραν·But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country:James 5:4 · χώραςBehold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.