noun · neuter
horem
Strong’sG3725
districts, territory
stem hor-12 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
ὅριον denotes a boundary or limit, and by extension the region or territory marked out by that boundary 123. In the plural, as it always appears in the New Testament, it refers to a district, territory, or bordering region rather than a boundary line itself 124, for example the "region" of a town or country 1. The word derives from a term meaning a bound or limit 23, and in the Greek Old Testament it is used chiefly to translate a Hebrew word for a border or territory 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
ὅριον, -ου, τό
(< ὅρος, a boundary), [in LXX chiefly for גְּבוּל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3725 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhor'-ee-on
a boundary-line, i.e. (by implication) a frontier (region)
Fromneuter of a derivative of an apparently primary ὅρος (a bound or limit);
King Jamesborder, coast.
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
={ὅρος}, diminutive only in form, boundary, limit, Refs 5th c.BC+: mostly in plural, boundaries, bounds, frontier, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τοῖς ὁ. on the frontier, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅρια κελεύθου limits of a road, i.e. the road itself, Refs 5th c.BC+; territories, LXX
2 Astrology texts, a subdivision of a zodiacal sign, appropriated to a planet, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II plural, rules, e.g. for the use of wine, Refs 5th c.BC+
III ὅριον· τείχισμα, φραγμόν, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 or object direct | horem | horeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | horeu | horeiu6×ὁρίων |
| to, for dative | hore | horei2×ὁρίοις |
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
hore 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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
horeiu“region”of, belonging togenitive plural6×
Matthew 8:34… auton parakalala hopōs metabainateia apo teiu horeiu autoiu.… they begged Him to leave their region.
Matthew 15:22kai idou gunaikas Chananaias apo teiu horeiu ekeineiu exercharantas krazate legarōntas; Elēasar min, …And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord …
Mark 5:17… archela parakalarō auton aperchara apo teiu horeiu autoiu.… to beg Jesus to leave their region.
Mark 7:31Kai palin exercharantos ek teiu horeiu Turau erchata dia Sidōnau eis tan …Then Jesus left the region of Tyre and went through Sidon …
Mark 7:31… thalassan tau Galilaiau ana mesem teiu horeiu Dekapoliau.… Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
Acts 13:50… Barnabon, kai ekbalala autoin apo teiu horeiu autoiu.… and drove them out of their district.
horei“region”to, fordative plural2×
Matthew 2:16“region”… en Bēthleem kai en pantei tei horei autau apo dietou kai katōterō, kata …… to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he …
Matthew 4:13… katoikata eis Kafarnaoum tan parathalassian en horei Zaboulōn kai Nefthalim;… is by the sea in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
horeim4×
Matthew 15:39… tem ploiem, kai erchata eis teim horeim Magadan.… the boat and went to the region of Magadan.
Matthew 19:1… tau Galilaiau kai erchata eis teim horeim tau Ioudaiau peran tou Iordanou.… left Galilee and went into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
Mark 7:24Ekeithen de anastēarantos aperchata eis teim horeim Turau. kai eisercharantos eis oikian oudenon …… that place and went to the region of Tyre. Not wanting anyone to …
Mark 10:1Kai ekeithen anastēarantos erchotō eis teim horeim tau Ioudaiau kai peran tou Iordanou, …… that place and went into the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan. Again …