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Noun chōra (country, countryside, region, land) in the New Testament
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 2: 12 | And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country (chōra) by another road. |
| 4: 16 | the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region (chōra) and shadow of death light has dawned." |
| 8: 28 | When he came to the other side, to the country (chōra) of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs coming out of the tombs met him. They were so fierce that no one could pass that way. |
Mark
| 1: 5 | And people from the whole Judean countryside (chōra) and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. |
| 5: 1 | They came to the other side of the sea, to the country (chōra) of the Gerasenes. |
| 5: 10 | He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country (chōra). |
| 6: 55 | and rushed about that whole region (chōra) and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. |
Luke
| 2: 8 | In that region (chōra) there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. |
| 3: 1 | In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region (chōra) of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, |
| 8: 26 | Then they arrived at the country (chōra) of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. |
| 12: 16 | Then he told them a parable: "The land (chōra) of a rich man produced abundantly. |
| 15: 13 | A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country (chōra), and there he squandered his property in dissolute living. |
| 15: 14 | When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country (chōra), and he began to be in need. |
| 15: 15 | So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country (chōra), who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. |
| 19: 12 | So he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country (chōra) to get royal power for himself and then return. |
| 21: 21 | Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those inside the city must leave it, and those out in the country (chōra) must not enter it; |
John
| 4: 35 | Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the land (chōra) is ripe for harvesting. |
| 11: 54 | Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region (chōra) near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples. |
| 11: 55 | Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country (chōra) to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. |
Acts
| 8: 1 | And Saul approved of their killing him. That day a severe persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the countryside (chōra) of Judea and Samaria. |
| 10: 39 | We are witnesses to all that he did both in the region (chōra) Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; |
| 12: 20 | Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him in a body; and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country (chōra) depended on the king's one for food. |
| 13: 49 | Thus the word of the Lord spread throughout the region (chōra). |
| 16: 6 | They went through the region (chōra) of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. |
| 18: 23 | After spending some time there he departed and went from place to place through the region (chōra) of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. |
| 26: 20 | but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside (chōra) of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds consistent with repentance. |
| 27: 27 | When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land (chōra). |
James
| 5: 4 | Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your lands (chōra), which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. |
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