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Strong's #5564 - χωρίον
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- a space, a place, a region, a district
- a piece of ground, a field, land
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χωρ-ίον, τό,
Dim. (only in form, cf. χ. μέγιστον Th. 2.19) of χῶρος and χώρα:
1 place, spot, district, very freq. in Prose from Hdt. down wards, e.g. 2.8, 10, 29, Th. 2.54; also in Com., as Ar. Nu. 209, etc.; never in Trag.: ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ χ. from the same spot, Hdt. 1.11; χ. ἔρημον, χ. χαλεπὰ καὶ πετρώδη, Th. 4.9; χ. ἱππάσιμα X. Cyr. 1.4.14: pl., sites, οἰκίσαι χωρία Th. 1.12.
2. town, ib. 100, etc.; χωρίων κατάληψις Pl. Grg. 455b, cf. Lys. 28.7, etc.
3. landed property, estate, Th. 1.106, Pl. Lg. 844b, Lys. 7.4, IG 12.325.10; used with ἀγρός, X. HG 2.4.1, etc.
4. place of business, office, D. 45.33.
5. space, room, Th. 1.63, etc.; esp. in Geom., space enclosed by lines, area, figure, Pl. Men. 82b sq., Ar. Nu. 152, Euc. Dat. 55, Papp. 240.17: esp. rectangle, Archim. Con.Sph. 2, al.
6. passage in a book, Hdt. 2.117 (unless interpol.), Luc. Hist.Conscr. 12, Ath. 15.672a, Simp. inCael. 126.4. subject, Th. 1.97: pl., topics, Lycurg. 31.
7. Medic., part of the body, Hp. Fract. 2, cf. Aph. 1.21 (pl.); τὸ χ. τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἥπατος periphr. for the gall-bladder, Id. Morb. 4.36.
χωρίον, χωρίου, τό (diminutive of χῶρος; or χώρα), from Herodotus down;
1. a space, a place; a region, district.
2. a piece of ground, a field, land (Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, others): Matthew 26:36; Mark 14:32; John 4:5 (A. V. parcel of ground); Acts 1:18; Acts 4:34 (plural lands);
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χωρίον , -ου , τό
(dimin. of χώρα , χῶρος ),
[in LXX: 1 Chronicles 27:27 (H3754), 2 Maccabees 11:5; 2 Maccabees 12:7; 2 Maccabees 12:21, 4 Maccabees 15:20*;]
1. a place, region.
2. an estate, property, piece of land: Matthew 26:36, Mark 14:32, John 4:5, Acts 1:18-19; Acts 4:34; Acts 5:3; Acts 5:8; Acts 28:7.†
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