Strong's #5561: chora (pronounced kho'-rah)

feminine of a derivative of the base of 5490 through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants):--coast, county, fields, ground, land, region. Compare 5117.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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chōra

1) the space lying between two places or limits

2) a region or country, i.e. a tract of land

2a) the (rural) region surrounding a city or village, the country

2b) the region with towns and villages which surround a metropolis

3) land which is ploughed or cultivated, ground

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from a derivative of the base of G5490 through the idea of empty expanse

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Matthew 2:12: "they departed into their own country another way."
Matthew 4:16: "and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light"
Matthew 8:28: "other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him"
Mark 1:5: "him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and"
Mark 5:1: "sea, into the country of the Gadarenes."
Mark 5:10: "send them away out of the country."
Luke 2:8: "in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping"
Luke 3:1: "tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch"
Luke 8:26: "they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is"
Luke 12:16: "them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:"
Luke 15:13: "gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted"
Luke 15:14: "famine in that land; and he began to be in want."
Luke 15:15: "himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into"
Luke 19:12: "went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and"
Luke 21:21: "them that are in the countries enter thereinto."
John 4:35: "and look on the fields; for they are white already"
John 11:54: "went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into"
John 11:55: "nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to"
Acts 8:1: "scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except"
Acts 10:39: "both in the land of the Jews, and in"
Acts 12:20: "having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace;"
Acts 12:20: "having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace;"
Acts 13:49: "throughout all the region."
Acts 16:6: "Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the"
Acts 18:23: "there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order,"
Acts 26:20: "throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles,"
Acts 27:27: "deemed that they drew near to some country;"
James 5:4: "laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth:"