χωρέω
to make room
also: to leave space, give place, yield fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5562 appears in the Book of Matthew — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
- Matthew 15:17 χωρεῖ pres act ind 3sg Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
- Matthew 19:11 χωροῦσιν pres act ind 3pl But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.
- Matthew 19:12 χωρεῖν χωρείτω pres act inf pres act impv 3sg For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
χωρεω — transliterated chōréō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to make room.” It first appears in Matthew 15:17. With 8 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (38% of all occurrences). The lexical range runs to 3 senses — “to make room” plus “to leave space”, “give place”, and “yield”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5562 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 75%
- Johannine 2 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 13%
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: Receive 3×
- American Standard Version: Contain 1×, Containing 1×, Free course 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Accept 1×, Can accept 1×, Come 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Receive 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5562 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5562 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5562 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5562 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 3 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.
- to leave space (which may be filled or occupied by another), to make room, give place, yield
- to go forward, advance, proceed, succeed
- to have space or room for receiving or holding something
Word origin
Derived from χωρα (chṓra) (G5561) — region.
From G5561 ; to be in ( give ) space that is (intransitively) to pass enter or (transitively) to hold admit (literally or figuratively): - come contain go have place (can be room to) receive.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G5562 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χωρεῖ chōreî | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 15:17 | 2 |
| χωρεῖν chōreîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Matthew 19:12 | 2 |
| Χωρήσατε Chōrḗsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 7:2 | 1 |
| χωρείτω chōreítō | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 19:12 | 1 |
| χωροῦσαι chōroûsai | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | John 2:6 | 1 |
| χωροῦσιν chōroûsin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 19:11 | 1 |
| χωρῆσαι chōrē̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | 2 Peter 3:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5562, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ευρυχωρος eurýchōros G2149 broad
- χωριζω chōrízō G5563 to separate
- χωριον chōríon G5564 field
- χωρις chōrís G5565 separate
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χωρεω appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 3 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 13:6 χωρέω
- 1 Kings 7:24 χωρέω
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 χωρέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5562) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 13:6 χωρέω The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
- 1 Kings 7:24 χωρέω Under the brim of it round about there were buds which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
- 1 Kings 18:32 χωρέω With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 χωρέω It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5562) 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.
