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 having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.Matthew 4:16 · χώρᾳthe people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death—light arose to them.’Matthew 8:28 · χώρανAnd he having come to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, there met him two demoniacs, coming forth out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass over by that way,Mark 1:5 · χώραand there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.Mark 5:1 · χώρανAnd they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes,Mark 5:10 · χώρας.and he was calling on him much, that he may not send them out of the region.Mark 6:55 · χώρανhaving run about through all that region round about, they began upon the couches to carry about those ill, where they were hearing that he is,Luke 2:8 · χώρᾳAnd there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,Luke 3:1 · χώραςAnd in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar—Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—Luke 8:26 · χώρανAnd they sailed down to the region of the Gadarenes, that is over-against Galilee,Luke 12:16 · χώρα.And he spake a simile unto them, saying, ‘Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;Luke 15:13 · χώραν‘And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;Luke 15:14 · χώρανand he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;Luke 15:15 · χώραςand having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,Luke 19:12 · χώρανHe said therefore, ‘A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,Luke 21:21 · χώραιςthen those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;John 4:35 · χώραςdo not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.John 11:54 · χώρανJesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.John 11:55 · χώραςAnd the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;Acts 8:1 · χώραςAnd Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;Acts 10:39 · χώρᾳand we—we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem,—whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.Acts 12:20 · χώρανAnd Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who is over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king’s;Acts 13:49 · χώρας.and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.Acts 16:6 · χώρανand having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,Acts 18:23 · χώρανAnd having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.Acts 26:20 · χώρανbut to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;Acts 27:27 · χώραν·And when the fourteenth night came—we being borne up and down in the Adria—toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;James 5:4 · χώραςlo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;