Place
τόποςStrong’s G5117topos
Appears in 88 verses of the New Testament
In short
Topos is the Greek word usually translated “place”, “places” and “opportunity”. It appears in 88 verses of the New Testament.
“I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”
Meaning
Usually translated “place”, “places” and “opportunity”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- place 62
- a place 16
- places 9
- opportunity 2
- spot 1
- room 1
- the place 1
- parts 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 19
- John 16
- Acts 16
- Matthew 9
- Mark 8
- Revelation 7
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Peter 1:19In contextWe have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
- Matthew 12:43When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
- Matthew 14:13When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
- Matthew 14:15And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
- Matthew 14:35And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
- Matthew 24:7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All 88 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
τόπος topos · place
τόπος, -ου, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly for מָקוֹם ;] place: Luk.4:37 10:1, 32 Jhn.5:13 6:10, Act.12:17, 1Co.1:2, al.; τ. ἅγιος (cf. Isa.60:13), Mat.24:15; ἔρημος, Mat.14:13, al.; πεδινός, Luk.6:17; ἄνυδρος (pl.), Mat.12:43, Luk.11:24; κατὰ τόπος (BV, in divers places), Mat.24:7, Mrk.13:8; τραχεῖς τ., Act.27:29; τ. διθάλασσος (which see), ib. 41; ἑτοιμάζειν τ., Jhn.14:2, 3; ἔχειν, Rev.12:6; διδόναι, Luk.14:9; with genitive defin., τ. βασάνου, Luk.16:28; τ. καταπαύσεως, Act.7:49; κρανίου, Mat.27:33, Mrk.15:22, Jhn.19:17; before οὗ, Rom.9:26; ὅπου, Mat.28:6, Mrk.16:6, Jhn.4:20 6:23 10:40 11:30 19:41; ἐ …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “place” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLACE, noun
- A particular portion of space of indefinite extent, occupied or intended to be occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing does or may rest or has rested, as distinct from space in general.“Look from the place where thou art” Genesis 13:14“The place where thou standest is holy ground” Exodus 3:5“David's place was empty” 1 Samuel 20:25
- Any portion of space, as distinct from space in general.“Enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place” Esther 4:14
- Local existence.“From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them” Revelation 20:11
- Separate room or apartment.
All definitions and other forms of “place”
- Seat; residence; mansion.“The Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation” John 11:48
- A portion or passage of writing or of a book.“The place of the Scripture which he read was this” Acts 8:32
- Point or degree in order of proceeding; as in the first place; in the second place; in the last place Hence,
- Rank; order of priority, dignity or importance.
- Office, employment; official station.
- Ground; room.
- Station in life; calling; occupation; condition.
- A city, a town; a village. Genesis 18:24
- In military affairs, a fortified town or post; a fortress; a fort; as a strong place; a place easily defended.
- A country; a kingdom.
- Space in general.
- Room; stead; with the sense of substitution.
- Room; kind reception.“My word hath no place in you” John 8:37
- The place of the moon, in astronomy, is the part of its orbit where it is found at any given time.
- To take the precedence or priority.
- To have actual existence.
- To give room; to give advantage; to yield to the influence of; to listen to.“Neither give place to the devil” Ephesians 4:27
- To give way; to yield to and suffer to pass away.
PLACE, verb transitive
To put or set in a particular part of space, or in a particular part of the earth, or in something on its surface; to locate; as, to place a house by the side of a stream; to place a book on a shelf; to place a body of cavalry on each flank of any army.
- To appoint, set, induct or establish in an office.“Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, etc” Exodus 18:21
- To put or set in any particular rank, state or condition.
- To set; to fix; as, to place one's affections on an object; to place confidence in a friend.
- To put; to invest; as, to place money in the funds or in a bank.
- To put out at interest; to lend; as, to place money in good hands or in good security.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.