Chṓra — G5561

Definition

feminine noun

room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants)

1. properly, the space lying between two places or limits
2. a region or country
3. land which is plowed or cultivated, ground

Usually translated as

region, land, fields, ground, coast, county

Origin

feminine of a derivative of the base of G5490 through the idea of empty expanse

• tópos (G5117)
• chásma (G5490)

Occurrences

Chṓra occurs 27 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (3), Mark (3), Luke (9), John (3), Acts (8), James (1)

• Matthew 2:12 — And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another (χώραν) way.
• Matthew 4:16 — The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region (χώρᾳ) and shadow of death light is sprung up.
• Matthew 8:28 — And when he was come to the other side into the country (χώραν) of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
• Mark 1:5 — And there went out unto him all the land (χώρᾳ) of Judæa, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Mark 5:1 — And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country (χώραν) of the Gadarenes.
• Mark 5:10 — And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country (χώρας).
• Luke 2:8 — And there were in the same country (χώρᾳ) shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
• 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 tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region (χώρας) of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
• Luke 8:26 — And they arrived at the country (χώραν) of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
• Luke 12:16 — And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground (χώρᾳ) of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
• Luke 15:13 — And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country (χώραν), and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
• Luke 15:14 — And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land (χώραν); and he began to be in want.
• Luke 15:15 — And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country (χώρας); and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
• Luke 19:12 — He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country (χώραν) to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
• Luke 21:21 — Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries (χώραις) enter thereinto.
• John 4:35 — Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields (χώρας); for they are white already to harvest.
• John 11:54 — Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country (χώραν) near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
• John 11:55 — And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up (χώρας) 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 abroad throughout the regions (χώρας) of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles.
• Acts 10:39 — And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land (χώρᾳ) 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 friend, desired peace; because their country (χώραν) was nourished by the king’s country.
• Acts 13:49 — And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region (χώρας).
• Acts 16:6 — Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region (χώραν) 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 (χώραν) 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 (χώραν) of Judæa, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
• Acts 27:27 — But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country (χώραν);
• James 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields (χώρας), which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.