G5561 – chora – χώρα coast, county, fields, ground, land, region

Strong’s ID:
G5561
Greek Word:
χώρα
Transliteration:
chōra / chora
Pronunciation:
kho’-rah
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage Count:
27
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Find “chora” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

feminine of a derivative of the base of through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants):—coast, county, fields, ground, land, region. Compare .

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) the space lying between two places or limits
2) a region or country, i.e. a tract of land
2a) the (rural) region surrounding a city or village, the country
2b) the region with towns and villages which surround a metropolis
3) land which is ploughed or cultivated, ground

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.