noun · masculine

chōros

Greekχῶρος (chōros)

Strong’sG5566

the north-west wind

stem chōr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

northwest1×

What it means

*† χῶρος, -ου, ὁ

(Lat. corus), the N.W. wind: Ac 27:12.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5566 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkho'-ros

the north-west wind

Fromof Latin origin;

King Jamesnorth west.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	chōros	chōrois
object accusative	chōron1×χῶρον	chōroin
direct address vocative	chōror	chōroir
of, belonging to genitive	chōrou	chōroiu
to, for dative	chōro	chōroi

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

chōrstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

chōro 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

Words built on the same stem

chōras — χώρα, region, land, fields chōramō — χωρέω, I make room, go, receive

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

chōron“northwest”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 27:12“northwest”aneuthetou de tou limēnou huparcharōtou pros paracheimasian tois polloterois tithela boulan anagira ekeithen, ei pōs duneloiō katantaratois eis Foinixon paracheimazara, limēnon tau Krētau bleparōton kata lipson kai kata chōron.Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, hoping that somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.