horion · region, border

What it means

horion (ὅριον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “region, border”.

Boundary, border; in the plural, a territory, the surrounding region.

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. The lands around a city or belonging to it, up to its borders.

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

How it is translated

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

• region ×10
• districts ×1
• territory ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×5
• Acts×1

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the magi, was greatly enraged, and sending men, he killed all the children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had learned precisely from the magi.

• Matthew 4:13

  And leaving Nazareth, he came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,

• Matthew 8:34

  And look, the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to move away from their region.

• Matthew 15:22

  And look, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is badly demon-possessed.”

• Matthew 15:39

  And after sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and came into the region of Magadan.

• Matthew 19:1

  And it happened when Jesus had finished these words that he departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

• Mark 5:17

  And they began to beg him to go away from their region.

• Mark 7:24

  And getting up from there, he went away into the region of Tyre. And he entered into a house and wanted no one to know it, and he could not escape notice.

• Mark 7:31

  And again going out from the region of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of the Decapolis.

• Mark 10:1

  And getting up from there, he goes into the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gather around him again, and as was his custom, he was again teaching them.

• Acts 13:50

  But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their region.

And 1 more times.