Strong G5561χώρα
country
- Transliteration
- chōra
- Pronunciation
- kho'-rah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Detailed definition
χώρα, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX for אֶרֶץ, מְדִינָה, etc.;]
1. most frequently in cl., a space, place.
2. land, i.e.
__(a) a land, country, region: Mat.12:2, Mrk.5:10 6:55, Luk.2:8 15:13-15 19:12, Jhn.11:54, Act.13:49 27:27; χ. Γαλατική, Act.16:6 18:23; Τραχωνίτιδος, Luk.3:1; τ. Ἰουδαίας, Act.26:20; τ. Ἰουδαίων, Act.10:39; pl., τῆς Ἰουδαίας κ. Σαμαρείας, Act.8:1; Γεργεσηνῶν (Γερασηνῶν, Γαδαρηνῶν) Mat.8:28, Mrk.5:1, Luk.8:26; ἐν χ. καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτου, Mat.4:16;
__(b) land, property: Luk.12:16;
__(with) the country, opposite to the town; so in pl., Luk.21:21, Jhn.4:35, Jas.5:4.†
SYN.: ἄγρος, τόπος (cf. DCG, i, 591a; LS, see word χώρα, ad init.). (AS)
[in LXX for אֶרֶץ, מְדִינָה, etc.;]
1. most frequently in cl., a space, place.
2. land, i.e.
__(a) a land, country, region: Mat.12:2, Mrk.5:10 6:55, Luk.2:8 15:13-15 19:12, Jhn.11:54, Act.13:49 27:27; χ. Γαλατική, Act.16:6 18:23; Τραχωνίτιδος, Luk.3:1; τ. Ἰουδαίας, Act.26:20; τ. Ἰουδαίων, Act.10:39; pl., τῆς Ἰουδαίας κ. Σαμαρείας, Act.8:1; Γεργεσηνῶν (Γερασηνῶν, Γαδαρηνῶν) Mat.8:28, Mrk.5:1, Luk.8:26; ἐν χ. καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτου, Mat.4:16;
__(b) land, property: Luk.12:16;
__(with) the country, opposite to the town; so in pl., Luk.21:21, Jhn.4:35, Jas.5:4.†
SYN.: ἄγρος, τόπος (cf. DCG, i, 591a; LS, see word χώρα, ad init.). (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5561 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- country15
- region5
- land3
- field2
- coast1
- ground1
First verses
- Matthew 2:12And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
- Matthew 4:16The 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 8:28And 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.
- Mark 1:5And there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
- Mark 5:1And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
- Mark 5:10And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
- Luke 2:8And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
- Luke 3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
- Luke 8:26And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
- Luke 12:16And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
- Luke 15:13And 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 15:14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
- Luke 15:15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
- Luke 19:12He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
- Luke 21:21Then let them which are in Judea 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 thereinto.
- John 4:35Say 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 to harvest.
- John 11:54Jesus 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 with his disciples.
- John 11:55And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
- Acts 8:1And 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 abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
- Acts 10:39And 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:
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
χώρα,
Ionic dialect χώρη, ἡ, ={χῶρος}, space or room in which a thing is, defined as partly occupied space, distinguished from κενόν and τόπος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.26 (compare2.163), 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 3.124; ποταγορεύοντι τὰν ὕλαν τόπον καὶ χώραν 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 94b (in ὁ τόπος τῆς χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 705c χώρα)] = country[Refs 8th c.BC+ ((compare 11.1); so χώρας ἐν τόποις Λιβυστικοῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 292); οὐδέ τι πολλὴ χώρη μεσσηγύς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.521; νόμισμα.. χώρας μεγάλης δέοιτ᾽ ἄν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 7.5)]; χώραν τινὶ καταλιπεῖν leave room for it, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.123f, etc.)]
2 generally, place, spot, στρέψεσθ᾽ ἐκ χώρης ὅθι.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.516, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.352; ὀλίγῃ ἐνὶ χ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.394)]; χώραν ἐκ χώρας μεταβάλλειν move from place to place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 181c)]; field in a ceiling, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).103.193, 106ii139 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; ἡ πρώτη χ. the first field (on the chest of Cypselus), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.17.6)]; socket or cavity of a joint, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 79, 80)]; of the eye, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).121.76 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; as euphemism for the genital organs, [Refs (Hippiatr. 33, 71.)]
3 the position, proper place of a person or thing, ἐνὶ χώρῃ ἕζεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.349)]: especially a soldier's post, Ἄρης οὐκ ἔνι χώρα is not at his post (or perhaps in the land,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 524) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 78 (_anapaest meter_))]; χώραν λιπεῖν, προλείπειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126, 2.87)]; μισθοφορεῖν κεναῖς χ. draw pay for unfilled vacancies, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.146; ἐπιγράψαι αὐτῷ τὴν χ. “UPZ” 14.88 (2nd c.BC): later τὴν χ. τινὸς ἀποπληρῶσαι, ποιῆσαι,)] fill a person's place, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (POxy. 136.15(6th c.AD), “PMasp.” 32.11 (6th c.AD): χώραν λαβεῖν)] take a position, find one's place, ἕως ἂν χώραν λάβῃ [τὰ πράγματα] till they are brought into position, into order, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.37; οὐ διδοὺς ἑτέρῳ τόπον οὐδὲ χώραν διακονίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.62d)]; οὐκ ἂν ἔχοι χώραν νοήσεως ἡντινοῦν τὸ ἀγαθόν the Good cannot have any possibility of thinking, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.6.6)]; σοὶ ἀστρονομεῖν χ. your province is astronomy, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.15; ἐν τοῖς ἀτέχνοις χώραν ἔχει τὸ αὐτόματον 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Fragmenta Historica - HGM” p.225D.: frequently in the phrase ὥρα καὶ χ.,)] time and place, ἐν ὁποία ἀξία φυτευθῆναι καὶ ὥρὰ καὶ χώρᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hipparchus” 225c; ἐν ἄλλῃ καὶ χώρῃ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ χυμῶν” 14)]; πρὸς ὥρας καὶ χώρας καὶ διαίτας[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 16, “Aph.” 3.3; ἥ τε τοῦ ἔτους ὥρα καὶ χ. καὶ φύσις τοῦ θεραπευομένου σώματος 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).399, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 1.10, 7th c.AD: Stephanus Medicus “in Hp.” 1.161, 180 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)] b. in metric, position of a foot in a verse, τὸ δακτυλικὸν δέχεται δακτύλους καὶ σπονδείους κατὰ πᾶσαν χ. [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 7.1, compare 8.1; αἱ περιτταὶ χ. [prev. author] 5.1, 6.1.)]
4 metaphorically, station, place, position, ἐν χώρᾳ τινὸς εἶναι to be in his position, be counted the same as he is, ἐν ἀνδραπόδων or μισθοφόρου χώρᾳ εἶναι to be in the position of slaves or mercenaries, to pass or rank as such, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.13, “Cyr.” 2.1.18)]; ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ χ. εἶναι to have no place or rank, be in no esteem, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 5.7.28; οὗ μέλλει χώρην μηδεμίαν θέμεναι 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 152; τούτων τοι χώρη.. ὀλίγη τελέθει [prev. author] 822; τὰς μεγίστας χ. ἔχειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.43.1.)]
5 in senses [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3 and 4 frequently with a _preposition_, ἐκ χώρας ὁρμᾶν, opposed to πορευόμενος μάχεσθαι, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.33)]; εἰς τὰς ἑαυτῶν χ. πάρεισι are at their posts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.2.4, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.57; εἰς τὰς τῶν λοχαγῶν χ. καταστήσεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.23)]; ἐν χώρᾳ in one's place, at one's post, ἐν ταῖς χ. γενέσθαι [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 4.8.15)]; ἐν χώρᾳ πίπτειν, ἀποθνῄσκειν, die at one's post, [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 4.2.20, 8.39)]; ἐπὶ χώρας ἕσσαι set it in its place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.273)]; also μένειν ἐπὶ χώρας, ={μένειν κατὰ χώραν}, remain in force, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“OGI” 90.16 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC), “BGU” 183.9 (1st c.AD))]; κατὰ χώρην εἶναι be in one's place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135; [φόροι] κατὰ χώρην διατελέουσι ἔχοντες [prev. author] 6.42, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 367, “Ra.” 793; κατὰ χ. μένειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.95, 8.108, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1354, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26)]; ἤλπιζον.. οὐ μενεῖν κατὰ χ. τὰ πράγματα[Refs ([prev. work] 76; μένει τὸ ὅρκιον κατὰ χ.)]as it was, undisturbed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.201)]; ἐᾶν κατὰ χ. τὴν πόλιν leave in its place, leave as it was, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.6, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.17; κατὰ χώραν μένειν τοὺς ἄλλους [νόμους] ἐᾶν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.5)]; κατὰ χ. ἀπιέναι retire in their old order, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.11.)]
II land, i.e. ,
II.1 a land, country, ἅς τινας ἵκεο χώρας ἀνθρώπων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.573; ἡ χ. ἡ Ἀττική 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.13; ἐμπορεύεσθαι εἰς τὴν χ. “IG” 12.57.21, compare 63.22, +others: frequently in Trag., Ἑλλάδα χώραν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 271 (Lyric poetry); Εὐβοῖδα χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 74, etc.)]; territory, ὁ τύραννος ἢ πόλεων ἢ χ. πολλῆς [ἐπιθυμεῖ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 4.7: _plural_, “OGI” 54.11 (Adule, 3rd c.BC), etc.)]
II.2 landed estate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.4.28, 8.6.4)]. b. country town, τοὺς κήρυκας διαπέμψαντες ἐς τὰς χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 688 B 8 (Chios, 5th c.BC).)]
II.3 the country, opposed to to the town, ἡ πόλις καὶ ἡ χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 1; τὰ ἐκ τῆς χώρας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.6.11)]; ὁ ἐκ τῆς χ. γιγνόμενος σῖτος[Refs ([prev. work] 13; οἱ ἐν τῇ χ. ἐργάται [prev. author] “Hier.” 10.5)]; ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ κοιταῖον γίγνεσθαι, opposed to ἐν ἄστει, Decrees cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.37)]; ἁ κοινὰ χ. (of two cities) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).77.2 (Epid., 2nd c.BC))]: especially of Egypt as opposed to Alexandria, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 56.5 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC), “PHib.” 1.27.167 (3rd c.BC), etc. (but in “PTeb.” 5.98 (2nd c.BC) ἐν τῇ Ἀλεξα (νδρέων) χ. means 'in Alexandria'))]; ἡ ἄνω χ. καὶ ἡ κάτω, Upper and Lower Egypt, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 90.46 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC), cf. Wilcken “Chr.” 109.9 (3rd c.BC).—χῶρος is another form: in signification 11 χώρα)] alone is used in Attic dialect; whereas in signification 1 χῶρος is common, except in the special sense of one's proper place or post (χῶρος and χώρα perhaps cognate with χῆρος, χῆτος).
Ionic dialect χώρη, ἡ, ={χῶρος}, space or room in which a thing is, defined as partly occupied space, distinguished from κενόν and τόπος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.26 (compare2.163), 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 3.124; ποταγορεύοντι τὰν ὕλαν τόπον καὶ χώραν 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 94b (in ὁ τόπος τῆς χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 705c χώρα)] = country[Refs 8th c.BC+ ((compare 11.1); so χώρας ἐν τόποις Λιβυστικοῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 292); οὐδέ τι πολλὴ χώρη μεσσηγύς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.521; νόμισμα.. χώρας μεγάλης δέοιτ᾽ ἄν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 7.5)]; χώραν τινὶ καταλιπεῖν leave room for it, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.123f, etc.)]
2 generally, place, spot, στρέψεσθ᾽ ἐκ χώρης ὅθι.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.516, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.352; ὀλίγῃ ἐνὶ χ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.394)]; χώραν ἐκ χώρας μεταβάλλειν move from place to place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 181c)]; field in a ceiling, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).103.193, 106ii139 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; ἡ πρώτη χ. the first field (on the chest of Cypselus), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.17.6)]; socket or cavity of a joint, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 79, 80)]; of the eye, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).121.76 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; as euphemism for the genital organs, [Refs (Hippiatr. 33, 71.)]
3 the position, proper place of a person or thing, ἐνὶ χώρῃ ἕζεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.349)]: especially a soldier's post, Ἄρης οὐκ ἔνι χώρα is not at his post (or perhaps in the land,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 524) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 78 (_anapaest meter_))]; χώραν λιπεῖν, προλείπειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126, 2.87)]; μισθοφορεῖν κεναῖς χ. draw pay for unfilled vacancies, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.146; ἐπιγράψαι αὐτῷ τὴν χ. “UPZ” 14.88 (2nd c.BC): later τὴν χ. τινὸς ἀποπληρῶσαι, ποιῆσαι,)] fill a person's place, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (POxy. 136.15(6th c.AD), “PMasp.” 32.11 (6th c.AD): χώραν λαβεῖν)] take a position, find one's place, ἕως ἂν χώραν λάβῃ [τὰ πράγματα] till they are brought into position, into order, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.37; οὐ διδοὺς ἑτέρῳ τόπον οὐδὲ χώραν διακονίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.62d)]; οὐκ ἂν ἔχοι χώραν νοήσεως ἡντινοῦν τὸ ἀγαθόν the Good cannot have any possibility of thinking, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.6.6)]; σοὶ ἀστρονομεῖν χ. your province is astronomy, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.15; ἐν τοῖς ἀτέχνοις χώραν ἔχει τὸ αὐτόματον 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Fragmenta Historica - HGM” p.225D.: frequently in the phrase ὥρα καὶ χ.,)] time and place, ἐν ὁποία ἀξία φυτευθῆναι καὶ ὥρὰ καὶ χώρᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hipparchus” 225c; ἐν ἄλλῃ καὶ χώρῃ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ χυμῶν” 14)]; πρὸς ὥρας καὶ χώρας καὶ διαίτας[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 16, “Aph.” 3.3; ἥ τε τοῦ ἔτους ὥρα καὶ χ. καὶ φύσις τοῦ θεραπευομένου σώματος 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).399, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 1.10, 7th c.AD: Stephanus Medicus “in Hp.” 1.161, 180 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)] b. in metric, position of a foot in a verse, τὸ δακτυλικὸν δέχεται δακτύλους καὶ σπονδείους κατὰ πᾶσαν χ. [Refs 7th c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 7.1, compare 8.1; αἱ περιτταὶ χ. [prev. author] 5.1, 6.1.)]
4 metaphorically, station, place, position, ἐν χώρᾳ τινὸς εἶναι to be in his position, be counted the same as he is, ἐν ἀνδραπόδων or μισθοφόρου χώρᾳ εἶναι to be in the position of slaves or mercenaries, to pass or rank as such, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.13, “Cyr.” 2.1.18)]; ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ χ. εἶναι to have no place or rank, be in no esteem, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 5.7.28; οὗ μέλλει χώρην μηδεμίαν θέμεναι 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 152; τούτων τοι χώρη.. ὀλίγη τελέθει [prev. author] 822; τὰς μεγίστας χ. ἔχειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.43.1.)]
5 in senses [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3 and 4 frequently with a _preposition_, ἐκ χώρας ὁρμᾶν, opposed to πορευόμενος μάχεσθαι, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.33)]; εἰς τὰς ἑαυτῶν χ. πάρεισι are at their posts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.2.4, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.57; εἰς τὰς τῶν λοχαγῶν χ. καταστήσεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.23)]; ἐν χώρᾳ in one's place, at one's post, ἐν ταῖς χ. γενέσθαι [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 4.8.15)]; ἐν χώρᾳ πίπτειν, ἀποθνῄσκειν, die at one's post, [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 4.2.20, 8.39)]; ἐπὶ χώρας ἕσσαι set it in its place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.273)]; also μένειν ἐπὶ χώρας, ={μένειν κατὰ χώραν}, remain in force, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“OGI” 90.16 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC), “BGU” 183.9 (1st c.AD))]; κατὰ χώρην εἶναι be in one's place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135; [φόροι] κατὰ χώρην διατελέουσι ἔχοντες [prev. author] 6.42, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 367, “Ra.” 793; κατὰ χ. μένειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.95, 8.108, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1354, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26)]; ἤλπιζον.. οὐ μενεῖν κατὰ χ. τὰ πράγματα[Refs ([prev. work] 76; μένει τὸ ὅρκιον κατὰ χ.)]as it was, undisturbed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.201)]; ἐᾶν κατὰ χ. τὴν πόλιν leave in its place, leave as it was, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.6, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.17; κατὰ χώραν μένειν τοὺς ἄλλους [νόμους] ἐᾶν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.5)]; κατὰ χ. ἀπιέναι retire in their old order, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.11.)]
II land, i.e. ,
II.1 a land, country, ἅς τινας ἵκεο χώρας ἀνθρώπων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.573; ἡ χ. ἡ Ἀττική 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.13; ἐμπορεύεσθαι εἰς τὴν χ. “IG” 12.57.21, compare 63.22, +others: frequently in Trag., Ἑλλάδα χώραν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 271 (Lyric poetry); Εὐβοῖδα χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 74, etc.)]; territory, ὁ τύραννος ἢ πόλεων ἢ χ. πολλῆς [ἐπιθυμεῖ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 4.7: _plural_, “OGI” 54.11 (Adule, 3rd c.BC), etc.)]
II.2 landed estate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.4.28, 8.6.4)]. b. country town, τοὺς κήρυκας διαπέμψαντες ἐς τὰς χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 688 B 8 (Chios, 5th c.BC).)]
II.3 the country, opposed to to the town, ἡ πόλις καὶ ἡ χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 1; τὰ ἐκ τῆς χώρας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.6.11)]; ὁ ἐκ τῆς χ. γιγνόμενος σῖτος[Refs ([prev. work] 13; οἱ ἐν τῇ χ. ἐργάται [prev. author] “Hier.” 10.5)]; ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ κοιταῖον γίγνεσθαι, opposed to ἐν ἄστει, Decrees cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.37)]; ἁ κοινὰ χ. (of two cities) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).77.2 (Epid., 2nd c.BC))]: especially of Egypt as opposed to Alexandria, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 56.5 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC), “PHib.” 1.27.167 (3rd c.BC), etc. (but in “PTeb.” 5.98 (2nd c.BC) ἐν τῇ Ἀλεξα (νδρέων) χ. means 'in Alexandria'))]; ἡ ἄνω χ. καὶ ἡ κάτω, Upper and Lower Egypt, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 90.46 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC), cf. Wilcken “Chr.” 109.9 (3rd c.BC).—χῶρος is another form: in signification 11 χώρα)] alone is used in Attic dialect; whereas in signification 1 χῶρος is common, except in the special sense of one's proper place or post (χῶρος and χώρα perhaps cognate with χῆρος, χῆτος).