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|strgr=[[apparently]] a [[primary]] [[word]]; a [[spot]] ([[general]] in [[space]], [[but]] [[limited]] by occupancy; [[whereas]] [[χώρα]] is a [[large]] [[but]] participle [[locality]]), i.e. location (as a [[position]], [[home]], [[tract]], etc.); [[figuratively]], [[condition]], [[opportunity]]; [[specially]], a [[scabbard]]: [[coast]], [[licence]], [[place]], X [[plain]], [[quarter]], + [[rock]], [[room]], [[where]].
|strgr=[[apparently]] a [[primary]] [[word]]; a [[spot]] ([[general]] in [[space]], [[but]] [[limited]] by occupancy; [[whereas]] [[χώρα]] is a [[large]] [[but]] participle [[locality]]), i.e. location (as a [[position]], [[home]], [[tract]], etc.); [[figuratively]], [[condition]], [[opportunity]]; [[specially]], a [[scabbard]]: [[coast]], [[licence]], [[place]], X [[plain]], [[quarter]], + [[rock]], [[room]], [[where]].
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|txtha=τόπου, ὁ, in Attic from Aeschylus and his contemporaries on; the Sept. מָקום; place; i. e.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> properly, any portion of space marked off, as it were, from surrounding, space; used of<br /><b class="num">a.</b> an inhabited place, as a city, village, district: G L T Tr WH); τόν τόπον καί τό ἔθνος, the place which the nation inhabit, i. e. the holy land and the Jewish people, τόπος ἅγιος, the temple (which the Sept. of Isa. Ix. 13calls ὁ ἅγιος τόπος τοῦ Θεοῦ), ἔρημος, R G L, 12; πεδινός, ἄνυδρος, plural, κατά τόπους (R. V. in divers places) i. e. the world over (but see κατά, II:3a. α.), ἐν παντί τόπῳ, τραχεῖς τόποι, R. V. rocky ground); τόπος διθάλασσος (A. V. place where two seas met); ἑτοιμάζειν τίνι τόπον, ἔχειν τόπον, a place to dwell in, Revelation , the passage cited; οὐκ ἦν αὐτοῖς τόπος ἐν τῷ καταλύματι, διδόναι τίνι τόπον, to give one place, give way to one, τόπος οὐχ εὑρέθη αὐτοῖς, τήν ἔσχατον τόπον, κατέχειν, τόπος τῆς βασάνου, τῆς καταπαύσεώς, κρανίου, τόν τόπον τῶν ἥλων, L T Tr marginal reading); — by the addition of οὗ, ὅπου, ἐφ' or ἐν ᾧ, followed by finite verbs, τόπος λεγόμενος, or καλούμενος, ὁ τόπος τίνος, the place which a person or thing occupies or has a right to: τῆς μαχαίρας, i. e. its sheath, ὁ ἴδιος τίνος (τίνος), universally, Ignatius ad Magnes. 5,1 [ET] (cf. ὁ αἰώνιος τόπος, ἴδιος, 1c.); ὁ ὀφειλόμενος τόπος, of heaven, Polycarp, ad Philippians 9,2 [ET]; Clement of Rome, 1 Corinthians 5,4 [ET]; also ὁ ἅγιος τόπος, ibid. 5,7 [ET]; (ὁ ὡρισμένος τόπος the Epistle of Barnabas 19,1 [ET]; Act. Paul et Thecl. 28; see especially Harnack's note on Clement of Rome, 1 Corinthians 5,4 [ET]).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> a place (passage) in a book: καί ἐν ἄλλῳ τόπῳ φησίν, Xenophon, mem. 2,1, 20 (but this is doubtful; cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, I:4; yet cf. Kühner, ad loc.); Philo de Joseph., § 26; Clement of Rome, 1 Corinthians 8,4 [ET]); in the same sense χώρα in Josephus, Antiquities 1,8, 3).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> metaphorically,<br /><b class="num">a.</b> the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly: ἀναπληρουν τόν τόπον τοῦ ἰδιώτου (R. V. filleth the place of the unlearned), τῆς διακονίας ταύτης καί ἀποστολῆς (R. V. the place in this ministry, etc.), L T Tr WH.<br /><b class="num">b.</b> opportunity, power, occasion for acting: τόπον λαμβάνειν τῆς ἀπολογίας, opportunity to make his defense, ἔχειν τῆς ἀπολογίας, Josephus, Antiquities 16,8, 5); τόπον διδόναι τῇ ὀργή (namely, τοῦ Θεοῦ), τῷ δαιβόλω, τῷ ἰατρῷ, to his curative efforts in one's case, νόμῳ ὑψίστου, τόπον διδόναι τινα, followed by an infinitive, τόπος μετανοίας εὑρίσκειν, εὑρίσκω, 3 (διδόναι. Clement of Rome, 1 Corinthians 7,5 [ET]; Latin locum relinquere paenitentiae, Livy 44,10; 24,26; (Pliny, epistle ad Trajan 96 (97), 10 cf. 2); ἔχειν τόπον μετανοίας, Tat. or. ad Graec. 15 at the end; διά τό μή καταλείπεσθαι σφισις τόπον ἐλέους μηδέ συγγνωμης, Polybius 1,88, 2); τόπον ἔχειν namely, τοῦ εὐαγγελίζεσθαι, ἐζητεῖτο τόπος, with a genitive of the thing for which influence is sought among men: διαθήκης, passive μέμφομαι)). [ SYNONYMS: τόπος 1, χώρα, χωρίον: τόπος place, indefinite; a portion of space viewed in reference to its occupancy, or as appropriated to a thing; χώρα region, country, extensive; space, yet bounded; χωρίον parcel of ground (τόπος and χωρίον (plural, R. V. lands) occur together in Schmidt, chapter 41.]
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