ὅριον
hórion · G3725 · Greek · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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Region or regions of the earth, normally in relation to some ethnic group or geographical center, but not necessarily constituting a unit of governmental administration (region, territory, land, district (though this might imply too precisely a governmental area))
ExamplesMatthew 2:16 Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent men and killed all the boys who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.
Matthew 4:13 and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.
Matthew 8:34 And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they pleaded with Him to leave their region.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
11 occurrences in 7 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
- ἸουδαίαJudea 2
- Τύρος 2
- Δεκάπολιςthe ten-city region 1
- ΖαβουλώνZabulon 1
- Μαγδαλάthe tower 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκεῖνοςthat, that one, there 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παῖςservant, child 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
11 occurrences in 4 groups
- εἰςto 8
- ἀπόfrom 8
- ἐκfrom 2
- ἐνin 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέσοςin the midst, among 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- κλίμα klíma · G2824 · region, territory, land
- Both terms denote geographical regions or territories. ὅριον more specifically emphasizes a boundary region or frontier zone, while κλίμα refers more generally to a tract of country or clime without necessarily implying border status.
In the other Testament 2 words
- גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl · H1366 · boundary, territory, wall
- Hebrew גְּבוּל and Greek ὅριον both denote a territorial boundary or border, functioning as precise cross-linguistic equivalents for marking geographic limits and frontiers.
- גְּבוּלָה gᵉbûwlâh · H1367 · boundary, territory
- Greek ὅριον and Hebrew גְּבוּלָה both denote territorial boundaries or frontier regions, representing direct translation equivalents across the LXX corpus for boundary/border terminology.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Region, territory, land (and even district, though this might imply too precisely a governmental area)1.79
- ὅριον names a bounded geographical region or territory, as the whole city responds to the demoniacs' healing by asking Jesus to leave: “And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they pleaded with Him to leave their region.” (Matthew 8:34)
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὁρίου, τό (from ὅρος (boundary)) (fr. Sophocles down), a bound, limit, in the N. T.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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