Strong G5562χωρέω
to make room for
- Transliteration
- chōreō
- Pronunciation
- kho-reh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G5561; to be in (give) space that is (intransitively) to pass enter or (transitively) to hold admit (literally or figuratively): - come contain go have place (can be room to) receive.
Detailed definition
χωρέω, -ῶ
[in LXX: Gen.13:6 (נָשָׂא), 3Ki.7:26 7:38 (כּוּל hi.), 2Ch.4:5 (חָזַק hi.), Wis.7:23-24, al.;]
I. Intrans.,
1. to make room, give way, retire, pass: before εἰς, Mat.15:17; metaphorically (EV, come), εἰς μετάνοιαν, 2Pe.3:9.
2. to go forward, advance, progress (Plat., Polyb., al.) ὁ λόγος ὁ ἐμὸς οὐ χωρεῖ. ἐν ὑμῖν, Jhn.8:37 (R, txt., hath not free course; R, mg., hath no place, for WH. cf. Field, Notes, 94 f.).
II. Trans., to have space for holding, to hold: Mrk.2:2 (cf. Ge, l.with), Jhn.21:25; of measures (1Ki, 2Ch, ll. with), Jhn.2:6. Metaphorical, of having or making room in mind or heart: Mat.19:11-12 (EV, receive), 2Co.7:2 (R, txt., open your hearts; mg., make room) (cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, ἐκ-, ὑπο-χωρέω).†
(AS)
[in LXX: Gen.13:6 (נָשָׂא), 3Ki.7:26 7:38 (כּוּל hi.), 2Ch.4:5 (חָזַק hi.), Wis.7:23-24, al.;]
I. Intrans.,
1. to make room, give way, retire, pass: before εἰς, Mat.15:17; metaphorically (EV, come), εἰς μετάνοιαν, 2Pe.3:9.
2. to go forward, advance, progress (Plat., Polyb., al.) ὁ λόγος ὁ ἐμὸς οὐ χωρεῖ. ἐν ὑμῖν, Jhn.8:37 (R, txt., hath not free course; R, mg., hath no place, for WH. cf. Field, Notes, 94 f.).
II. Trans., to have space for holding, to hold: Mrk.2:2 (cf. Ge, l.with), Jhn.21:25; of measures (1Ki, 2Ch, ll. with), Jhn.2:6. Metaphorical, of having or making room in mind or heart: Mat.19:11-12 (EV, receive), 2Co.7:2 (R, txt., open your hearts; mg., make room) (cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, ἐκ-, ὑπο-χωρέω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5562 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- receive4
- contain2
- can1
- come1
- goeth1
- hath1
- place1
First verses
- Matthew 15:17Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
- Matthew 19:11But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
- Matthew 19:12For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
- Mark 2:2And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
- John 2:6And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
- John 8:37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
- John 21:25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
- 2 Corinthians 7:2Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
- 2 Peter 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
χωρ-έω,
[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 108, etc.)]; future χωρήσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.629, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.89, 8.68.β, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος παιδίου” 18)], and in later Prose, as [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 20.15, etc.)]; Attic dialect only in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.82 (except in compounds, ἀνα-χωρήσω [prev. author] 7.72, ἀπο- 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 6.2, προ- 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.4, προσ- [prev. author] 2.2, συγ- [prev. author] 1.140, etc.))]; elsewhere in Trag. and Attic dialect always in middle form, χωρήσομαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 476, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 404, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.20, etc., and frequently in compounds:)]aorist ἐχώρησα, Epic dialect χώρησα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.655, “hymnus ad Cererem” 430, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.120, etc.)]: perfect κεχώρηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120, 122, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.122, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 19, etc.:)] —passive, future χωρηθήσομαι (συγ-) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.17.5:)]aorist ἐχωρήθην (συν-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.31, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.4:)]perfect κεχώρηται (παρα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 11.52, (συγ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 15a)]: (χῶρος):—make room for another, give way, withdraw, ἐχώρησαν πάλιν αὖτις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.533)]; γαῖα ἔνερθε χώρησεν the earth gave way from beneath, i. e. opened, [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” [same place])]; χ. πρύμναν, ={κρούεσθαι πρύμναν}, put back, retire, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1120; χωρεῖτε)]begone! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 196, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1678, “Med.” 820, etc.)]—The uncom pounded word does not occur in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”)] and only future and aorist in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”)] —Construction:
1 with genitive of things vel loci, χώρησεν τυτθὺν ἐπάλξιος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.406; νεῶν ἐχώρησαν 15.655; νεκροῦ χωρήσουσι 16.629; also νηῶν ἄπο.. ἐχώρησαν προτὶ Ἴλιον 13.724; ἀπὸ κρατερῆς ὑσμίνης χωρήσαντες 18.244; ἔξω τῶνδε δωμάτων χωρεῖτε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 180; ἐκ πυλῶν [prev. author] “Th.” 476; ἐκ προαστίου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1432.)]
2 with dative person, give way to one, make way for him, retire before him, οὐδ᾽ ἂν Ἀχιλλῆϊ χωρήσειεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.324, compare 17.101.)]
II after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], go forward, advance, τὸ πῦρ.. πρόσω κεχώρηκεν [Refs (Callias Epigrammaticus in “PSI” 11.1216.34)]; simply, go or come, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.10, etc.)]; go on one's journey, travel, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 750; χ. ἐπ᾽ ἀδελφεοῦ βίαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.73, etc.; ἐς ναῦν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 379)]; χ. πρὸς ἔργον come to action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 116, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 884)]; χ. πρὸς ἧπαρ go to one's heart, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 938)]; χωρῶν ἀπείλει νῦν go and threaten, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 1038; διὰ φόνου χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 176)]; τὰ τοξεύματα ἐχώρει διὰ τῶν ἀσπίδων, of weapons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.28)]; τὸ ὕδωρ κατὰ τὰς τάφρους ἐχώρει it went off by.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 7.5.16; ἄνω ποταμῶν χωροῦσι παγαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 410 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.10)]; χώρει κάτω go downwards, i.e. beginning from the upper parts of the body, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 74; διὰ στόμα χωροῦντα.. ἀφρόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1174)]; χ. κύκλῳ [ὁ ποταυός] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b)]; ὁμόσε χ. τισί to join battle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.101, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 451, compare ὁμόσε 1.2; χ. ὁμόσε τοῖς λόγοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 921; χ. δειπνήσων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 272; πρὸς τὸ ἱερὸν χωρῆσαι δρόμῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.134; χωροῖς ἂν εἴσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1491, “Ph.” 674; χώρει, ξέν᾽, ἔξω [prev. author] “OC” 824: of Time, νὺξ ἐχώρει)] the night was passing, near an end, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 384; βιοστερὴς χ.)]wander about, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 747: in Medicine texts, of excretions, τὰ χωρέοντα μὴ τῷ πλήθει τεκμαίρεσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἂν χωρέῃ οἷα δεῖ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 1.23)]; also of the menses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Mul.” 1.2: with _accusative_ loci, Κεκροπίαν χθόνα χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1572.)]
II.b to be in motion or flux, πάντα χωρεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 402a, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 1.5.)]
II.2 go forward, make progress, τοὔργον οὐ χωρεῖ πρόσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Dict.” in “PSI” 11.1209.16; πῶς οὖν οὐ χωρεῖ τοὔργο; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 472 (Lyric poetry))]; χωρεῖ.. τὸ πρᾶγμα[Refs ([prev. work] 509; τόκοι χωροῦσιν [prev. author] “Nu.” 18; χωρεῖ τὸ κακόν [prev. author] “V.” 1483, “Nu.” 907 (both _anapaest meter_).)]
II.3 come to an issue, turn out in a certain manner, παρὰ σμικρὰ.. κεχώρηκε have come to little, of the event of oracles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120; εὐτυχέως χ. [prev. author] 3.39)]; κακῶς χ. turn out ill, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 684e; δόξα δ᾽ ἐχώρει δίχα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 117 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Hel.” 759)]: frequently absolutely, advance, succeed, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.42, 5.89; πάντα διὰ πράξεων καὶ.. ἀγώνων κεχωρηκότα.. Ῥωμαίοις 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus “Praef.” 8; τὰ πράγματα χωρεῖ κατὰ λόγον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.17.12; ὁ λόγος ὁ ἐμὸς οὐ χωρεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν NT.John.8.37 (unless in signification 111. below))]; also, to be possible, οὐ γάρ οἱ χωρεῖ περιβαλεῖν κτλ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 1.3 (sed to be read ἐγχωρεῖ).)]
II.4 to be spread abroad, ἡ φάτις κεχώρηκε a report spread, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.122)]; διὰ πάντων οὕτως ἐχώρει τίς ἕψετα;” [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.62; κλαυθμὸς διὰ πάντων ἐχώρει 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 19)]; ὄνομα δόξῃ διὰ πάντων ἀνθρώπων κεχωρηκός a name spread abroad, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.)]
II.5 of money, to be spent, τὰς μὲν δαπάνας χωρεῖν ἐντελεῖς ἐκ τῶν οἴκων, τὰ δὲ ἔργα μὴ τελείσθαι λυσιτελούντως πρὸς τὴν δαπάνην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.21; τὰ προσγεινόμενα χωρήσει εἰς ἃ ἂν ὁ δῆμος θελήσῃ “IG” 5(1).18 B 6 (from Sparta), compare 1432.4 (Messene, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD).)]
III transitive, have room for a thing, hold, contain, frequently of measures, κρητὴρ χωρέων ἀμφορέας ἑξακοσίους [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.51, compare 192, 4.61, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1238, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 214a; οὐκ ἐχώρησεν αὐτοὺς ἡ πόλις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.17, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.200, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.164, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 941; οὐκ ἐχώρει αὐτοὺς ἡ γῆ κατοικεῖν ἅμα LXX.Gen.13.6; ποτήρια.. οὐχὶ χωροῦντ᾽ οὐδὲ κόγχην 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 143.3 (troch.); κοτύλας χ. δέκα 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Kol.fragment” 2, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 96, etc.)]; χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς take us into your hearis! [NT (NT.2Cor.7.2; οὐ πάντες χωροῦσι τὸν λόγον τοῦτον)]find room for.., [NT (NT.Matt.19.11 (so perhaps _intransitive_, NT.John.8.37, see above 11.3))]; to be capable of, τὸ Κάτωνος φρόνημα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 64)]: with infinitive, to be capable of doing, οὐ χωρεῖ μεγάλην διδαχὴν ἀδίδακτος ἀκούειν (variant for{ἀκουή}) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 89; δωρεὰν ὅσην οὐκ ἐχωρήσατε αἰτεῖσθαι “IG” 7.2713.11 (Acraeph., Oratio Neronis).)]
III.2 impersonal, ὅταν μηκέτι χωρῇ αὐταῖς ἐργαζομέναις [ταῖς μελίτταις] when there is no more room for them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 626b11.)]
[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 108, etc.)]; future χωρήσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.629, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.89, 8.68.β, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος παιδίου” 18)], and in later Prose, as [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 20.15, etc.)]; Attic dialect only in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.82 (except in compounds, ἀνα-χωρήσω [prev. author] 7.72, ἀπο- 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 6.2, προ- 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.4, προσ- [prev. author] 2.2, συγ- [prev. author] 1.140, etc.))]; elsewhere in Trag. and Attic dialect always in middle form, χωρήσομαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 476, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 404, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.20, etc., and frequently in compounds:)]aorist ἐχώρησα, Epic dialect χώρησα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.655, “hymnus ad Cererem” 430, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.120, etc.)]: perfect κεχώρηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120, 122, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.122, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 19, etc.:)] —passive, future χωρηθήσομαι (συγ-) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.17.5:)]aorist ἐχωρήθην (συν-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.31, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.4:)]perfect κεχώρηται (παρα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 11.52, (συγ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 15a)]: (χῶρος):—make room for another, give way, withdraw, ἐχώρησαν πάλιν αὖτις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.533)]; γαῖα ἔνερθε χώρησεν the earth gave way from beneath, i. e. opened, [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” [same place])]; χ. πρύμναν, ={κρούεσθαι πρύμναν}, put back, retire, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1120; χωρεῖτε)]begone! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 196, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1678, “Med.” 820, etc.)]—The uncom pounded word does not occur in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”)] and only future and aorist in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”)] —Construction:
1 with genitive of things vel loci, χώρησεν τυτθὺν ἐπάλξιος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.406; νεῶν ἐχώρησαν 15.655; νεκροῦ χωρήσουσι 16.629; also νηῶν ἄπο.. ἐχώρησαν προτὶ Ἴλιον 13.724; ἀπὸ κρατερῆς ὑσμίνης χωρήσαντες 18.244; ἔξω τῶνδε δωμάτων χωρεῖτε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 180; ἐκ πυλῶν [prev. author] “Th.” 476; ἐκ προαστίου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1432.)]
2 with dative person, give way to one, make way for him, retire before him, οὐδ᾽ ἂν Ἀχιλλῆϊ χωρήσειεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.324, compare 17.101.)]
II after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], go forward, advance, τὸ πῦρ.. πρόσω κεχώρηκεν [Refs (Callias Epigrammaticus in “PSI” 11.1216.34)]; simply, go or come, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.10, etc.)]; go on one's journey, travel, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 750; χ. ἐπ᾽ ἀδελφεοῦ βίαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.73, etc.; ἐς ναῦν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 379)]; χ. πρὸς ἔργον come to action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 116, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 884)]; χ. πρὸς ἧπαρ go to one's heart, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 938)]; χωρῶν ἀπείλει νῦν go and threaten, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 1038; διὰ φόνου χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 176)]; τὰ τοξεύματα ἐχώρει διὰ τῶν ἀσπίδων, of weapons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.28)]; τὸ ὕδωρ κατὰ τὰς τάφρους ἐχώρει it went off by.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 7.5.16; ἄνω ποταμῶν χωροῦσι παγαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 410 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.10)]; χώρει κάτω go downwards, i.e. beginning from the upper parts of the body, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 74; διὰ στόμα χωροῦντα.. ἀφρόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1174)]; χ. κύκλῳ [ὁ ποταυός] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b)]; ὁμόσε χ. τισί to join battle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.101, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 451, compare ὁμόσε 1.2; χ. ὁμόσε τοῖς λόγοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 921; χ. δειπνήσων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 272; πρὸς τὸ ἱερὸν χωρῆσαι δρόμῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.134; χωροῖς ἂν εἴσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1491, “Ph.” 674; χώρει, ξέν᾽, ἔξω [prev. author] “OC” 824: of Time, νὺξ ἐχώρει)] the night was passing, near an end, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 384; βιοστερὴς χ.)]wander about, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 747: in Medicine texts, of excretions, τὰ χωρέοντα μὴ τῷ πλήθει τεκμαίρεσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἂν χωρέῃ οἷα δεῖ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 1.23)]; also of the menses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Mul.” 1.2: with _accusative_ loci, Κεκροπίαν χθόνα χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1572.)]
II.b to be in motion or flux, πάντα χωρεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 402a, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 1.5.)]
II.2 go forward, make progress, τοὔργον οὐ χωρεῖ πρόσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Dict.” in “PSI” 11.1209.16; πῶς οὖν οὐ χωρεῖ τοὔργο; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 472 (Lyric poetry))]; χωρεῖ.. τὸ πρᾶγμα[Refs ([prev. work] 509; τόκοι χωροῦσιν [prev. author] “Nu.” 18; χωρεῖ τὸ κακόν [prev. author] “V.” 1483, “Nu.” 907 (both _anapaest meter_).)]
II.3 come to an issue, turn out in a certain manner, παρὰ σμικρὰ.. κεχώρηκε have come to little, of the event of oracles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120; εὐτυχέως χ. [prev. author] 3.39)]; κακῶς χ. turn out ill, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 684e; δόξα δ᾽ ἐχώρει δίχα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 117 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Hel.” 759)]: frequently absolutely, advance, succeed, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.42, 5.89; πάντα διὰ πράξεων καὶ.. ἀγώνων κεχωρηκότα.. Ῥωμαίοις 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus “Praef.” 8; τὰ πράγματα χωρεῖ κατὰ λόγον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 28.17.12; ὁ λόγος ὁ ἐμὸς οὐ χωρεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν NT.John.8.37 (unless in signification 111. below))]; also, to be possible, οὐ γάρ οἱ χωρεῖ περιβαλεῖν κτλ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 1.3 (sed to be read ἐγχωρεῖ).)]
II.4 to be spread abroad, ἡ φάτις κεχώρηκε a report spread, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.122)]; διὰ πάντων οὕτως ἐχώρει τίς ἕψετα;” [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.62; κλαυθμὸς διὰ πάντων ἐχώρει 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 19)]; ὄνομα δόξῃ διὰ πάντων ἀνθρώπων κεχωρηκός a name spread abroad, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.)]
II.5 of money, to be spent, τὰς μὲν δαπάνας χωρεῖν ἐντελεῖς ἐκ τῶν οἴκων, τὰ δὲ ἔργα μὴ τελείσθαι λυσιτελούντως πρὸς τὴν δαπάνην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.21; τὰ προσγεινόμενα χωρήσει εἰς ἃ ἂν ὁ δῆμος θελήσῃ “IG” 5(1).18 B 6 (from Sparta), compare 1432.4 (Messene, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD).)]
III transitive, have room for a thing, hold, contain, frequently of measures, κρητὴρ χωρέων ἀμφορέας ἑξακοσίους [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.51, compare 192, 4.61, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1238, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 214a; οὐκ ἐχώρησεν αὐτοὺς ἡ πόλις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.17, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.200, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.164, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 941; οὐκ ἐχώρει αὐτοὺς ἡ γῆ κατοικεῖν ἅμα LXX.Gen.13.6; ποτήρια.. οὐχὶ χωροῦντ᾽ οὐδὲ κόγχην 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 143.3 (troch.); κοτύλας χ. δέκα 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Kol.fragment” 2, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 96, etc.)]; χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς take us into your hearis! [NT (NT.2Cor.7.2; οὐ πάντες χωροῦσι τὸν λόγον τοῦτον)]find room for.., [NT (NT.Matt.19.11 (so perhaps _intransitive_, NT.John.8.37, see above 11.3))]; to be capable of, τὸ Κάτωνος φρόνημα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 64)]: with infinitive, to be capable of doing, οὐ χωρεῖ μεγάλην διδαχὴν ἀδίδακτος ἀκούειν (variant for{ἀκουή}) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 89; δωρεὰν ὅσην οὐκ ἐχωρήσατε αἰτεῖσθαι “IG” 7.2713.11 (Acraeph., Oratio Neronis).)]
III.2 impersonal, ὅταν μηκέτι χωρῇ αὐταῖς ἐργαζομέναις [ταῖς μελίτταις] when there is no more room for them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 626b11.)]