2001 Translation

CHŌRA, chōra

Sounds Like: KHO-rah

Translations: country, a country, land, a land, region, a region, place, a place, field, a field

From the root: ΧΩΡΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a geographical area, territory, or a specific plot of land. It can denote a large region, a specific country, or even a cultivated field. It is used to describe the physical space or territory associated with a people or a ruler.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative

Strong’s number: G5561 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:107, 1:112, 1:114, 1:115

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 7:8

Codex Sinaiticus

• 2 Esdras — 11:3
• Esther — 4:3, 8:17, 9:19
• Tobit — 1:4, 1:14
• 1 Maccabees — 7:7, 8:3, 9:24, 11:64, 12:32, 13:34, 14:29, 14:43, 14:44, 15:6, 16:14
• Psalms — 114:9
• Ecclesiastes — 5:7
• Job — 1:1
• Isaiah — 2:6, 2:7, 7:18, 8:23, 9:1, 18:3, 19:17, 19:19, 19:20, 21:14, 27:13, 37:12
• Jeremiah — 4:29
• Matthew — 4:16
• Mark — 1:5
• Luke — 2:8, 12:16
• Acts of the Apostles — 10:39
• Epistle of Barnabas — 7:8

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 15:102, 20:153, 22:174, 26:247

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 4:119, 6:133, 6:136
• Book 2 — 2:18, 7:190, 14:297, 15:322
• Book 3 — 1:1
• Book 4 — 8:220
• Book 5 — 8:260
• Book 6 — 5:80, 7:140, 13:310
• Book 7 — 5:104, 7:133, 10:232, 12:297, 12:315
• Book 8 — 6:163, 7:174, 11:286, 12:297, 13:335, 14:364, 15:393
• Book 9 — 8:176, 10:219
• Book 10 — 5:82, 8:154, 9:175, 9:177, 9:178
• Book 11 — 1:4, 1:7, 1:12, 5:125, 5:173, 6:291
• Book 12 — 10:397
• Book 13 — 1:23, 2:57, 5:133, 5:145, 5:182, 5:186, 9:257, 10:284, 11:318, 14:385, 16:410
• Book 15 — 4:96, 5:121, 8:293
• Book 17 — 2:27
• Book 20 — 2:26, 8:160, 9:215

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 7:15, 8:14, 10:2, 22:29
• Book Two — 14:21
• Book Three — 3:14, 3:23, 10:55
• Book Four — 3:63, 8:16, 8:30, 10:31
• Book Five — 11:6

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 13:1, 34:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 78:1, 79:2, 127:2, 135:6

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 37:187

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 11:28
• 1 Kings — 7:41
• Ezra (Alpha) — 5:45, 6:22, 8:13, 9:37
• Ezra (Beta) — 7:16
• Nehemiah — 1:3
• Esther — 4:3, 8:12, 9:19
• Tobit — 1:4, 1:4, 1:14
• 1 Maccabees — 7:7, 8:3, 9:24, 11:64, 12:32, 13:34, 14:29, 14:43, 14:44, 16:14
• 2 Maccabees — 1:1
• 3 Maccabees — 3:1
• Psalms — 114:9
• Ecclesiastes — 5:7
• Job — 1:1
• Isaiah — 2:6, 2:7, 7:18, 9:1, 9:2, 18:3, 19:17, 19:19, 19:20, 21:14, 27:13, 37:12
• Jeremiah — 4:29
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:60, 1:71
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:1, 3:97, 8:2
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 8:2, 11:16, 11:42

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:16
• Mark — 1:5
• Luke — 2:8, 12:16
• Acts — 10:39

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΩΡΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΤΗΝΧΩΡΑΝ — the country, the land, the region, a country, a land, a region
• ΤΗΣΧΩΡΑΣ — of the land, of the country, of the region, of the field, of the place
• ΧΩ — country, a country, land, a land, region, a region, place, a place, field, a field, (of) country, (of) land, (of) region, (of) place, (of) field
• ΧΩΡΑΙ — countries, lands, regions, fields
• ΧΩΡΑΙΣ — to lands, for lands, in lands, to regions, for regions, in regions, to countries, for countries, in countries
• ΧΩΡΑΝ — country, a country, land, a land, region, a region, field, a field
• ΧΩΡΑΝὈΝΤΟΣ — country, a country, land, a land, region, a region, field, a field, place, a place, district, a district, ground, a ground
• ΧΩΡΑΣ — of a country, of a region, of a land, of a place, of the country, of the region, of the land, of the place, countries, regions, lands, places
• ΧΩΡΕΣ — lands, regions, places, fields, countries, districts, areas
• ΧΩΡΗ — country, a country, land, a land, region, a region, field, a field, place, a place
• ΧΩΡΙΝ — place, a place, room, a room, region, a region, country, a country, field, a field
• ΧΩΡΩ — country, land, region, place, a country, a land, a region, a place
• ΧΩΡΩΝ — of lands, of regions, of countries, of places, of fields, of the country

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