chōrizō · separate

What it means

chōrizō (χωρίζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “separate”.

In the passive, depart, leave.

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. To put distance between two who were joined: people, a marriage, a love.
2. To leave a place for another, sometimes by someone's order.

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

How it is translated

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

• separate ×7
• separated ×2
• depart ×1
• he departed ×1
• leave ×1
• separates ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Acts×3
• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×4
• Philemon×1
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 19:6

  So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

• Mark 10:9

  So what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

• Acts 1:4

  And while gathered together with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, “which you heard from me;

• Acts 18:1

  After these things he departed from Athens and came to Corinth.

• Acts 18:2

  And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who had recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome; and he went to them,

• Romans 8:35

  Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

• Romans 8:39

  nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in the Messiah Jesus our Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 7:10

  To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): a wife is not to separate from her husband

• 1 Corinthians 7:11

  (but if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to send away his wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:15

  But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister is not enslaved in such cases; but God has called us in peace.

• Philemon 1:15

  For perhaps for this reason he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back forever,

• Hebrews 7:26

  For such a high priest was indeed fitting for us: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

And 1 more times.