# χώρα (chōra)

Strong’s G5561. 28 New Testament occurrences.

(a) a country or region, (b) the land, as opposed to the sea, (c) the country, distinct from town, (d) plur: fields.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/chora-g5561

## Occurrences

- [Matthew 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/2/12) — And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
- [Matthew 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/4/16) — The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
- [Matthew 8:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/8/28) — And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce,…
- [Mark 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/1/5) — And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
- [Mark 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/1) — And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
- [Mark 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/10) — And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
- [Mark 6:55](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/6/55) — And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
- [Luke 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/2/8) — And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
- [Luke 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/3/1) — Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip…
- [Luke 8:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/8/26) — And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
- [Luke 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/12/16) — And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
- [Luke 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/15/13) — And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
- [Luke 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/15/14) — And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
- [Luke 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/15/15) — And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
- [Luke 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/19/12) — He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
- [Luke 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/21/21) — Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter…
- [John 4:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/4/35) — Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already t…
- [John 11:54](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/11/54) — Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued wi…
- [John 11:55](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/11/55) — And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
- [Acts 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/8/1) — And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered a…
- [Acts 10:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/10/39) — And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
- [Acts 12:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/12/20) — And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend…
- [Acts 13:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/13/49) — And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
- [Acts 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/16/6) — Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
- [Acts 18:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/18/23) — And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
- [Acts 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/26/20) — But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn t…
- [Acts 27:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/27/27) — But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
- [James 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/5/4) — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are ent…