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τόπος

place

‘place’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G5117 Strong's Greek
tópos Transliteration
/top'-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 95 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, τοπος (tópos) means “place.” First canonically at Matthew 12:43, it enters the text early. It appears 90 verses across 14 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
coast
Modern gloss
place
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5117 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

90
distinct verses
The word appears in 90 distinct verses.
14 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 14 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 12:43
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 12:43.
Revelation 20:11
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 20:11.
#179
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 179 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 90 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 53 · 59%
  • Acts 16 · 18%
  • Pauline Epistles 9 · 10%
  • General Epistles 4 · 4%
  • Revelation 8 · 9%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 90 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 53 verses · 59%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 34 verses · 38%
  • Johannine 25 verses · 28%
  • Pauline corpus 9 verses · 10%
  • Revelation 8 verses · 9%
  • Hebrews 3 verses · 3%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 1%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Place 71×, Places 6×, Room 5×
  • American Standard Version: Place 71×, Places 6×, A 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Place 62×, Places 6×, Everywhere 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Place 80×, A 11×, Places 8×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5117 across 91 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Place” 71×
  • “Places” 6×
  • “Room” 5×
  • “Quarters” 2×

Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5117 across 93 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Place” 71×
  • “Places” 6×
  • “A” 3×
  • “Divers places” 2×
  • “Room” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5117 across 87 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Place” 62×
  • “Places” 6×
  • “Everywhere” 3×
  • “Room” 3×

Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5117 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Place” 80×
  • “A” 11×
  • “Places” 8×
  • “Opportunity” 2×
  • “Room” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. place, any portion or space marked off, as it were from surrounding space
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Origin: apparently a primary word

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 11:07,1

Apparently a primary word; a spot (generally in space but limited by occupancy; whereas G5561 is a larger but particular locality ) that is location (as a position home tract etc.); figuratively condition opportunity ; specifically a scabbard : - coast licence place X plain quarter + rock room where.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 7 distinct written forms G5117 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
τόπον tópon Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 14:13 47
τόπος tópos Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 14:15 16
τόπῳ tópō Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 24:15 15
τόπου tópou Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 14:35 7
τόπους tópous Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 24:7 5
τόπων tópōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 12:43 3
τόποις tópois Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine Mark 1:45 2

Septuagint usage

The same Greek word τοπος appears 451 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 425 verses in 32 books.

451
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
425
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
32 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5117) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 425. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5117) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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