Strong's Greek · G5561
χώρα
chṓra
coast, county, fields, ground, land, region
Definition
room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants)
Derivation
feminine of a derivative of the base of G5490 (χάσμα) through the idea of empty expanse;
Appears 28 times in Scripture
“And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.”
“And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.”
“On the other side of the sea, they arrived in the region of the Gerasenes.”
“And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of that region.”
“As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.”
“After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.”
“the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.””
“People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.”
“and ran through that whole region, carrying the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was.”
“In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).