1) place, any portion or space marked off, as it were from surrounding space
1a) an inhabited place, as a city, village, district
1b) a place (passage) in a book
2) metaphorically
2a) the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly
2b) opportunity, power, occasion for acting
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Citing in TDNT: 8:187, 1184
G5117
Apparently a primary word; a spot (generally in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas G5561 is a larger but particular locality), that is, location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively condition, opportunity; specifically a scabbard: - coast, licence, place, X plain, quarter, + rock, room, where.
| Gloss | Section |
|---|---|
| (τόπος διθάλασσος) reef | 1.68 |
| (ἒρημος τόπος) lonely place | 1.86 |
| f people | 11.59 |
| b passage | 33.10 |
| c task | 42.21 |
| (ὁ ἐπὶ τόπον πλέων) sea traveller | 54.27 |
| e possibility | 71.6 |
| a place | 80.1 |
| d position | 87.1 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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