5561 - chóra

Strong's Concordance

Original word: χώρα
Transliteration: chóra
Definition (short): country
Definition (full): a space, place, land

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. word
Definition: a space, place, land
NASB Translation: country (15), fields (2), land (4), region (6), regions (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Feminine of a derivative of the base of chasma 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 topos.

see GREEK topos

see GREEK chasma

KJV: And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
NASB: And having been warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.
KJV: 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.
NASB: "THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED."
KJV: 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, so that no man might pass by that way.
NASB: When He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two men who were demon-possessed met Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way.
KJV: 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.
NASB: And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
KJV: And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
NASB: They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.