noun · masculine
choros
Strong’sG5525
a dance, dancing
stem chor-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χορός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for מָחוֹל, מְחֹלָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5525 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhor-os'
a ring, i.e. round dance ("choir"
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesdancing.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
dance, αἰεὶ δ᾽ ἡμῖν δαίς τε φίλη κίθαρίς τε χοροί τε Refs 8th c.BC+: later of the dance as a public religious ceremony, Διόνυσον τιμώσας χοροῖς Refs 5th c.BC+; χοροὺς ἀνῆγον αἱ πόλεις (i.e. εἰς τὴν Δῆλον) Refs 5th c.BC+; πεν- ἀνδρῶν χ. Refs 4th c.BC+; κύκλιος χ. (see. κύκλιος); θυσίῃσί σφεα (i.e. Δαμίην καὶ Αὐξησίην) καὶ χοροῖσι γυναικηΐοισι κερτόμοισι ἱλάσκοντο Refs 5th c.BC+; τραγικοὶ χοροί, at Sicyon, Refs 5th c.BC+: hence of the chorus in the Attic drama, οἱ χ. τῶν τραγῳδῶν Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. τραγικός, κωμικός, Refs 4th c.BC+; also χ. τρυγικός, τρυγῳδικός, Refs 5th c.BC+; arranged in six rows, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὃς οὐκ ἔδωκ᾽ αἰτοῦντι Σοφοκλέει χορόν (of the archon to whom the poet applied) Refs 5th c.BC+; χορὸν λαβεῖν, ἔχειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. συλλέξαι, χοροὺς ἀθροίζειν (i.e. from the tribe), Refs 5th c.BC+
II choir, band of dancers and singers, h. Ven.NT+5th c.BC+
II.2 generally, choir, troop, ἰχθύων Refs 5th c.BC+; of things, ἄστρων αἰθέριοι χ. Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. σκευῶν row of dishes, Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. δονάκων row of reeds, i. e. Pan's pipe, Refs 5th c.AD+; χ. ὀδόντων a row of teeth, Refs 2nd c.AD+ for the front teeth, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν σοφίαν ποῦ χοροῦ τάξομε; in what class shall we place it? Refs 5th c.BC+
III place for dancing, ἐν δὲ χ. ποίκιλλε.. Ἀμφιγυήεις Refs 8th c.BC+; at Sparta the ἀγορά was called χορός, Refs 5th c.BC+: see below (Acc. to Refs 5th c.AD+ ={κύκλος},{στέφανος}, and therefore properly denotes a ring-dance.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | choros | chorois |
| object accusative | choron | choroin |
| direct address vocative | choror | choroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | chorou | choroiu1×χορῶν |
| to, for dative | choro | choroi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
choro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
choroiu“dancing”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 15:25… engizata ta oikia, akouata sumfōniau kai choroiu,… the house, he heard music and dancing.