chōra · region, country

What it means

chōra (χώρα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “region, country”.

Countryside, field.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A region, a country.
2. Farmland.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• region ×13
• country ×8
• fields ×3
• land ×2
• countryside ×1
• regions ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×4
• Luke×9
• John×3
• Acts×8
• James×1

• Matthew 2:12

  And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another way.

• Matthew 4:16

  the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light dawned on them.”

• Matthew 8:28

  And when he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two men possessed by demons met him, coming out of the tombs, so violent that no one could pass along that road.

• Mark 1:5

  And all the Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were being immersed by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

• Mark 5:1

  And they came to the other side of the sea, into the region of the Gerasenes.

• Mark 5:10

  And he was begging him earnestly not to send them out of the region.

• Mark 6:55

  and ran around all that region and began to carry the sick on their mats to wherever they heard that he was.

• Luke 2:8

  And there were shepherds in that same region, living out in the fields and keeping watch by night over their flock.

• Luke 3:1

  Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

• Luke 8:26

  And they sailed down to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.

• Luke 12:16

  And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

• Luke 15:13

  And not many days later, the younger son, gathering together everything, went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate living recklessly.

• Luke 15:14

  And when he had spent everything, a severe famine came over that country, and he began to be in need.

• Luke 15:15

  And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Luke 19:12

  So he said, “A certain man of noble birth went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

• Luke 21:21

  Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those in the middle of it must get out, and those in the fields must not enter into it;

• John 4:35

  Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest comes’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already

• John 11:54

  So Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

• John 11:55

  Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves.

• Acts 8:1

  And Saul was approving of his killing. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the assembly that was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

• Acts 10:39

  And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; him they even killed by hanging him on a wooden beam.

• Acts 12:20

  Now he was furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one mind they came to him, and having won over Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was fed from the king’s country.

• Acts 13:49

  And the word of the Lord was spreading through the whole region.

• Acts 16:6

  And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia.

• Acts 18:23

  And after spending some time there, he departed, going through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

• Acts 26:20

  but to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the nations, I declared that they should change their minds and turn to God, doing works worthy of the change of mind.

• Acts 27:27

  And when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven across in the Adriatic, about the middle of the night the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them.

• James 5:4

  Look, the wages of the workers who mowed your fields, withheld by you, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Tsevaot.