χώρα chōra

Greek word for “country” · Strong’s G5561 · used 28 times in 28 verses

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Meaning

χώρα, -ας, ἡ; 1. most frequently in cl., a space, place.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chōra in context, with how often each is used:

• region 15
• country 6
• land 2
• fields 2
• ground 1
• countries 1
• regions 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 15 (3), Mark 5 (2), John 11 (2), Matthew 2 (1), Matthew 4 (1), Matthew 8 (1), Mark 1 (1), Mark 6 (1), Luke 2 (1), Luke 3 (1)

Forms

• χώραν 14
• χώρας 8
• χώρᾳ 3
• χώρα 2
• χώραις 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chōra more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• Ἰουδαία Ioudaia “Judea” 5
• ἐκεῖνος ekeinos “that” 5
• Γαλατικός Galatikos “Galatia” 2
• Γερασηνός Gerasēnos “Gerasene” 2
• Φρυγία Phrugia “Phrygia” 2
• μακρός makros “long/distant” 2
• Ἱεροσόλυμα Hierosoluma “Jerusalem” 3
• διαφέρω diapherō “to spread/surpass” 2
• πέραν peran “other side” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 4
• Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaios “Jew” 3
• ἐγγύς engus “near” 2

Key verses

The verses using chōra that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 4:16 — The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
• Luke 3:1 — Now 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…
• Luke 15:13 — And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
• Luke 15:15 — And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
• John 11:55 — And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
• Acts 8:1 — And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered…
• Acts 10:39 — And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
• Acts 12:20 — And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their…
• Acts 16:6 — Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
• Acts 18:23 — And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
• Acts 26:20 — But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judæa, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to…
• James 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.