G5564
χωρίον
a spot or plot of ground
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a spot or plot of ground
χωρίον(chōríon)
Strong’s Definition
a spot or plot of ground
diminutive of G5561 (χώρα);
“Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.”
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A Parcel of Promise: The Sacred Ground of God's Dwelling
Beloved, consider this: the word chōríon appears but ten times in the Holy Writings, yet each occurrence marks a place where heaven and earth meet in holy tension. This diminutive of chōra — a little portion of a larger region—carries within it the mystery of how the Infinite condescends to inhabit finite space. In the Greek tongue, this word once spoke of any small plot of land, a piece of property measured by the farmer's eye. But the Spirit took this humble term and filled it with the weight of redemptive history. When you hear chōríon, do not think merely of soil and boundaries. Think rather of a place set apart, a parcel of ground where God's purposes take root and grow toward harvest.Send a Gift
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From the Field of Blood to the Garden of Rest
The first occurrence in the apostolic writings strikes with terrible irony. In the Acts of the Apostles, we read of a chōríon purchased with the wages of betrayal. Judas Iscariot, the one who sold his Master for thirty pieces of silver, acquired a field with the price of his own destruction. The place where the betrayer's body burst open became known as Akeldama, the Field of Blood. Yet even this cursed ground, the sages teach, was not beyond the reach of divine purpose. For the ancient land laws of Israel held that a field bought with blood money could be used for burying strangers—a quiet testimony that even the worst human treachery cannot thwart God's plan to gather the outcasts. The rabbis of old observed that ground consecrated by death often becomes ground prepared for mercy.The Little Place of Great Cost
In the gospel according to Matthew, the word takes on a different hue. A certain man possesses a chōríon—a small plot of land—and another man, the Lord Yeshua, tells a story about treasure hidden in such a field. The one who finds the treasure sells all he has to buy the chōríon. The early church saw in this parable the very pattern of redemption: the world is the field, the treasure is the people of God, and the one who purchases the field at the cost of everything is the Messiah Himself. The Greek mind might have thought of chōríon as mere real estate, a commodity to be traded. But the apostolic teaching transformed it into a symbol of the kingdom—a little place of infinite worth, purchased not with silver and gold, but with precious blood.The LXX Bridge: When Greek Carries Hebrew Weight
When the translators of the Septuagint sought to render the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, they chose chōríon to carry the weight of several Hebrew terms for land and field. Most significantly, it translates the Hebrew sadeh, that fertile word for cultivated field, the place of labor and blessing. In the book of Ruth, the chōríon of Boaz becomes the setting for redemption—where the kinsman-redeemer meets the foreign bride. The ancient writings of Israel show that the sadeh was no mere possession but a living inheritance, passed down through generations as a sign of covenant faithfulness. When the LXX renders Ruth's story, the word chōríon carries all this ancestral memory: the field is where destiny unfolds, where the outsider becomes the beloved, where the harvest of redemption springs from the soil of obedience.The Apostolic Fingerprint: Luke's Sacred Geography
The beloved physician Luke, that careful historian of the Way, uses chōríon with particular theological precision. In his gospel, the word appears most frequently, and always at moments of high spiritual drama. He alone records that the Lord Yeshua was led to a certain chōríon called Gethsemane—a place not of a house or temple, but of an olive press, a plot of ground where the Son of God would be pressed until His sweat became like great drops of blood. The early church father Ignatius, writing from his own journey toward martyrdom, saw in this chōríon the pattern of every believer's testing ground. Luke understood that sacred geography is not about buildings made with hands, but about the small, ordinary places where God chooses to manifest His presence and accomplish His greatest works.The Parcel of Ground That Became the World
Consider the radical transformation the apostolic writings worked upon this humble word. The classical Greek world knew chōríon as a piece of property, a location on a map, a quantifiable space. But in the hands of the Spirit-inspired authors, it became a vessel for paradox. The smallest chōríon—a garden tomb, a hillside, a field of blood—could hold the weight of eternity. The apostle Peter, writing to the scattered believers, reminds them that they have been born again to a living inheritance, one that is not a chōríon of earthly soil but a portion of the kingdom that cannot fade or be defiled. The fathers of the faith observed that when the Word became flesh, He sanctified every parcel of ground where human feet might stand. No place is too small for the presence of the Almighty.The Messiah's Parcel: Where Heaven Staked Its Claim
The deepest mystery of chōríon unfolds in the passion of Yeshua the Messiah. For there is a garden, a chōríon called Gethsemane, where the Son of Man wrestled with the cup of suffering. And there is another garden, another chōríon, where a tomb was hewn from rock—a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. The apostle John records that this tomb was in a garden, near the place of crucifixion. The New Testament writers use this word to connect the two great moments of redemption: the surrender in the garden and the resurrection from the garden. In the Greek text, these are not merely locations but chōría—holy parcels where the curse of the first garden was reversed and the new creation began. The one who purchased the field of the world with His blood now invites you to become part of that purchased possession.Your Parcel of Sacred Ground
And now, beloved, hear this for your own soul: you have a chōríon, a little plot of ground that the Lord has given you. It may be your home, your heart, your daily labor, your place of prayer. It may seem small in the eyes of the world, a mere parcel of ordinary life. But the Spirit of the Living God desires to meet you there, to hide treasure in that soil, to press out the oil of anointing from that place of surrender. The rabbis of old taught that every person has a portion of ground that only they can cultivate for the kingdom. Do not despise the littleness of your chōríon. For the One who purchased the field of the world with His own blood is the same One who stands at the door of your heart—that small, sacred parcel—and knocks, waiting to enter and make His dwelling with you. What will you sell to possess this treasure? What will you plant in this ground? The harvest is near, and the Lord of the field is faithful. Go now, and tend your portion with joy.