Quick Definition
τόπος, ου, ὁ n.m. a place
Strong's Definition
apparently a primary word; a spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas 5561 is a large but participle locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively, condition, opportunity; specially, a scabbard
KJV Usage: coast, licence, place, X plain, quarter, + rock, room, where
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου | ἄτοπος · ἐντόπιος
80.1 · Space · Space, Place
space, place, room an area of any size, regarded in certain contexts as a point in space In JHN 11:48 the expression τὸν τόπον refers to the Temple in Jerusalem.
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33.10 · Communication · Word, Passage
passage, part of a document, part of Scripture a particular portion or unit of discourse In rendering τόπος[b], περιοχή, or γραφή[a], it is often possible to use a rather general term such as the place or the part. In other instances one may wish to use a term meaning the words. Accordingly, LUK 4:21 may be rendered as ‘these words have come true today as you have heard them being read.’
42.21 · Perform, Do · Do, Perform
position of service, task a role involving activity and responsibility In some languages the latter part of this expression in ACT 1:25 may be rendered as ‘helping in this way and being an apostle’ or ‘helping in this way as an apostle.’ For another interpretation of τόπος in ACT 1:25, see 87.1.
87.1 · Status · Position, Rank
position, role the position of a person within a group, implying a particular role or type of activity In a number of languages the equivalent of this expression in ACT 1:25 may be simply ‘to undertake the work of an apostle’ or ‘to be an apostle in serving.’ For another interpretation of τόπος in ACT 1:25, involving a shift in focus, see 42.21.
71.6 · Mode · Possible, Impossible
possibility, chance, opportunity the possibility of some occasion or opportunity
11.59 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · Socio-Political
place, people the inhabitants of a place In a number of languages it is impossible to use a term meaning ‘place’ as a reference to the people of such a place.
1.68 · Geographical Objects and Features · Land in Contrast With the Sea
Collocation: τόπος διθάλασσος
sandbar, reef a bar or reef produced in an area where two currents meet It is possible to understand τόπος διθάλασσος in ACT 27:41 as a place of crosscurrents; see 14.32. In some languages it may be necessary to construct a descriptive equivalent for ‘sandbank,’ for example, ‘a hill of sand just beneath the surface of the water’ or ‘a ridge of sand hidden by the water.’
1 It is possible that in the case of such meanings as τόπος[f] (11.59), πόλις[c] (11.61), κώμη[b] (11.62), and χώρα[e] (11.64) one should count on certain more or less automatic semantic rules by which the meaning of inhabitants could be derived by metonymy from expressions of place. Since, however, such metonymic developments are far from universal, the distinct meanings are listed here as a practical guide to translators. The same type of problem occurs with Ιεροσόλυμα ‘Jerusalem,’ Ἰουδαία ‘Judea,’ and περίχωρος ‘region’ in MAT 3:5.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τόπος, -ov, 6, in Attic fr. Aeschyl. and his contemporaries on; Sept. DIP; place; i.e. 1. prop. any portion of space marked off, as it were, from surrounding space ; used of a. an inhabited place, as a city, village, district: Lk. iv. 37; x. 1; Acts xii. 17; xvi. 3; xxvii. 2,8; 1Co.i.2; 2Co. ii. 14; 1 ΤῊ. 1. 8; Rev. xviii. 17 [GLT Tr WH]; τὸν τόπον καὶ τὸ ἔθνος, the place which the nation inhabit, i.e. the holy land and the Jewish people, Jn. xi. 48 (cf. 2 Mace. v. 19 sq.) ; τόπος ἅγιος, the temple (which the Sept. of Is. Ix. 13 calls ὁ ἅγιος τόπος τοῦ θεοῦ), Mt. xxiv. 15. of a house, Acts iv. 31. of uninhabited places, with adjectives: ἔρημος, Mt. xiv. 13,15; Mk. i. 35; vi. 31 sq.; Lk. iv. 42; ix. 10 RGL, 12; medwos, Lk. vi. 17; ἄνυδρος, plur., Mt. xii. 43; Lk. xi. 24. of any place whatever: κατὰ τύπους, [R.V. in divers places] i.e. the world over [but see xara, ΤΙ. 3a.a.], Mt. xxiv. 7; Mk. xiii. 8; [ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ, 2 Th. iii. 16 Lehm.]; of places in the sea, τραχεῖς τόποι, Acts xxvii. 29 [R.V. rocky ground]; rom. διθάλασσος, [ A. V. place where two seas met], ibid. 41. of that ‘place’ where what is narrated occurred: Lk. x. 32; xix. 5; xxii. 40; Jn.v.13; vi. 10; xviii.2. ofa place or spot where one can settle, abide, dwell : ἑτοιμάζειν τινὶ τόπον, Jn. xiv. 2sq., οἵ. Rev. xii. 6; ἔχειν τόπον, ἃ place to dwell in, Rev. 1. c.; οὐκ ἦν αὐτοῖς τόπος ἐν τῷ καταλύματι, Lk. ii. 7; διδόναι τινὶ τόπον, to give one place, give way to one, Lk. xiv. 9°; τόπος οὐχ εὑρέθη αὐτοῖς, Rev. xx. 11; of the seat which one gets in any gathering, as at a feast, Lk. xiv. 10; τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον κατέχειν, ibid. 9>; of the place or spot occupied by things placed in it, Jn. LK. xvi. 28; τῆς καταπαύσεως, Acts vii. 49; κρανίου, Mt. xxvii. 33; Mk. xv. 22; Jn. xix. 17; [τὸν τόπον τῶν ἥλων, Jn. xx. 2501, T Tr mrg.]; — by the addition of οὗ, ὅπου, xvi. 6; Jn. iv. 20; vi. 23; x.40; xi. 6, 30; xix.41; Acts vii. 33; Ro. ix. 26 ;— by the addition of a proper name: τόπος λεγόμενος, Or καλούμενος, Mt. xxvii. 33; Mk. xv. 22; Lk. xxiii. 33; Jn. xix. 13; Rev. xvi. 16; ὁ τόπος twos, the place which a person or thing occupies or has aright to: Rev. ii. 5; vi. 14; xii.8; where a thing is hidden, τῆς μαχαίρας i.e. its sheath, Mt. xxvi. 52. the abode assigned by God to one after death wherein to receive his merited portion of bliss or of misery: (ὁ ἴδιος τόπος (τινός), univ. Ignat. ad Magnes. 5, 1 [cf. 6 αἰώνιος τόπος, Tob. iii. 6]); applied to Gehenna, Acts i. 25 (see ἴδιος, 1 c.); ὁ ὀφειλόμενος τόπος, of heaven, Polye. ad Philip. 9, 2; Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 5, 4; also ὁ ἅγιος τόπος, ibid. 5, 7; [6 ὡρισμένος τ. Barn. ep. 19,1; Act. Paul et Thecl. 28; see esp. Harnack’s note on Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 5, 4]. b. a place (passage) in a book: Lk. iv. 17 (καὶ ἐν ἄλλῳ τόπῳ φησίν, Xen. mem. 2, 1, 20[(but this is doubtful; cf. L. and S.s.v. 1.4; yet ef. Kiihner ad loc.) ; Philo de Joseph. § 26; Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 8, 4]; in the same sense χώρα in Joseph. antt. 1, 8, 3). ὩΣ metaph. a. the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly: ἀναπληροῦν τὸν τόπον τοῦ ἰδιώτου, [R. V. filleth the place of the unlearned], 1 Co. xiv. 16; τῆς διακονίας ταύτης καὶ ἀποστολῆς, [R.V. the place in this ministry, ete.], Acts i. 25 LT Tr WH. b. opportunity, power, occasion for acting: τόπον λαμβάνειν τῆς ἀπολογίας, opportunity to make his defence, Acts xxv. 16 (ἔχειν τ. ἀπολογίας, Joseph. antt. 16, 8,5); τόπον διδόναι TH ὀργῇ (sc. τοῦ θεοῦ), Ro. xii. 19; τῷ διαβόλῳ, Eph. iv. 27, (τῷ ἰατρῷ, to his curative efforts in one’s case, Sir. xxxviii. 12; νόμῳ ὑψίστου, ibid. xix. 17; τόπον διδόναι τινί, foll. by an inf., ibid. iv. 5); τόπ. μετανοίας εὑρίoxew, Heb. xii. 17, on this pass. see εὑρίσκω, 3 (διδόναι, Sap. xii. 10; Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 7, 5; Lat. locum relinquere paenitentiae, Liv. 44, 10; 24, 26; [Plin. ep. ad Trai. 96 (97), 10 ef. 2]; ἔχειν τόπον μετανοίας, Tat. or. ad Graec. 15 fin. ; διὰ τὸ μὴ καταλείπεσθαί σφισι τόπον ἐλέους μηδὲ συγγνώμης, Polyb. 1, γελίζεσθαι, Ro. xv. 23; 7. ζητεῖν, with a gen. of the thing for which influence is sought among men: διαθήκης, pass. Heb. viii. 7 [(cf. μέμφομαι) J. [Syx. τόπος 1, χώρα, χωρίον: τόπ. place, indefinite ; a portion of space viewed in reference to its occupancy, or as appropriated to a thing; χώρα region, country, extensive ; space, yet bounded; χωρίον parcel of ground (Jn. iv. 5), circumscribed ; a definite portion of space viewed as enclosed or complete in itself ; τόπος and χωρίον (plur., R. V. lands) occur together in Acts xxviii. 7. Cf. Schmidt ch. 41.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Πόντος Pontos 1x
Pontus, country of Asia Minor, Acts 2:9; 1 Pet. 1:1*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τόπος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for מָקֹום ;]
place: Lk 4:37 10:1, 32, Jo 5:13 6:10, Ac 12:17, I Co 1:2, al.; τ. ἅγιος (cf. Is 60:13), Mt 24:15; ἔρημος, Mt 14:13, al.; πεδινός, Lk 6:17; ἄνυδρος (pl.), Mt 12:43, Lk 11:24; κατὰ τόπους (EV, in divers places), Mt 24:7, Mk 13:8; τραχεῖς τ., Ac 27:29; τ. διθάλασσος (q.v.), ib. 41; ἑτοιμάζειν τ., Jo 14:2, 3; ἔχειν, Re 12:6; διδόναι, Lk 14:9; c. gen. defin., τ. βασάνου, Lk 16:28; τ. καταπαύσεως, Ac 7:49; κρανίου, Mt 27:33, Mk 15:22, Jo 19:17; seq. οὗ, Ro 9:26; ὅπου, Mt 28:6, Mk 16:6, Jo 4:20 6:23 10:40 11:30 19:41; ἐν ᾧ, Jo 11:6; ἐφ’ ᾧ, Ac 7:33; of a place which a person or thing occupies, Re 2:5 6:14 12:8; τ. μαχαίρας, Mt 26:52; ὁ ἴδιος τ., Ac 1:25; of a place in a book, Lk 4:17 (cf. Clem. Rom., I Co., 8, 4). Metaph., of condition, station, occasion, opportunity or power: Ac 25:16, Ro 12:19 15:23, Eph 4:27 (cf. Si 38:12).
SYN.: χώρα (extensive), region; χωρίον (enclosed), a piece of ground. τ. is "a portion of space viewed in reference to its occupancy, or as appropriated to a thing " (Grimm-Thayer, s.v.).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τόπος, (1) “ἃ place”: P Cairo Zen If. 591935 (B.c. 225) ἱππῶνα (‘‘stable”) οὐκ ἔχει ὁ τόπος, P Oxy IV. 7425 (8.6. 2) θ[ἐ]ς αὐτὰς εἰς τόπον ἀσφαλῶς, and BGU II. 5958 (c. A.D. 70-80) elva φιλάνθρωπον (‘reward’’) εἰς δύο τόπους μὴ χορηγῆι Θέων. With τόπος as a ‘‘sitting-place” in Lk 141°, Deissmann (LS, p. 267) compares erg 618, where τόπος means “seat in a theatre” (for further exx. see the editor’s note). See also J/agz. 237 where between the pillars of the temple of Artemis there have been scratched on the marble floor the words—6 τόπος τρικλείνου ἱερῶν αὐλητρίδων καὶ ἀκροβατῶν (cited by Thieme p- 32, comparing 1 Cor 1418). Τόπος is also frequent in Christian (and pagan) sepulchral inserr. as in C. and B. ii. p. 554, No. 426 Τόπος Φιλοθέου], where Ramsay compares the corresponding use of the Lat. locus, Or locudus. With Jn 1148 cf. MGr use of τόπος = “country,” “nation.” (2) ‘a district”: P Hib I. 66? (B.c. 228) ἐν τοῖς κατὰ σὲ τόποις, “in your district,” P Vebt II. 2812 (8.6. 125) παρὰ τῶν κτωμένων οἰκίας ἢ τόπους, ‘from acquirers of houses or spaces,” P Oxy VIII. 11549 (late i/a.p.) αὐτόπτης yap εἰμὶ τῶν τόπων καὶ οὐκ εἰμὶ ξέν[οἸς τῶν ἐνθάδε, “for I am personally acquainted with these places and am not a stranger here ’’ (Ed.), 26, II. 24318 (A.D. 79) Ψιλῶν τόπων, “open plots of land,” P Fay 100! (a.p. 99) οἰκίας καὶ avAf[s] καὶ τόπων (“grounds”), 22. 307 (notice of death— A.D. 173) ἀναγρ(αφομένου) ἐπ᾿ ἀμφόδου Λυσανίου Τόπων “registered in the quarter of Lysanias’ District” (Edd.) P Oxy VIIL. rr11*8 (a,b. 203) ἥϊμισυ μέρος] τόπί(ου) περιτετιχισμί(ένου), ‘the half share of a walled space ” (Ed.), and P Lond 954?° (a.p. 260) (= III. p. 153) ψιλὸν τόπον. ‘a vacant space.” See also such prepositional phrases as BGU IV. 11419 (B.C. 13) εἰς ἐνφα[ν]ιστοῦ τόπον με ἔχειν, which is practically Ξ- εἰς ἐνφαντιστήν : similarly in Mt 214° εἰς προφήτην may be written εἰς προφήτου τόπον. P Par 471" (c. B.C. 153) (as read UPZ i. p. 332) γίνωσκε ὅτι πιράσεται ὁ δραπέ[δ]ης μὴ ἀφῖναι ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ τῶν τόπων tvat (‘an Ort und Stelle zu sein,” Wilcken), P Tebt II. 2898 (A.D. 23) πότερον ἐπὶ τόπων σε ἐάσω πράττοντά τι, ‘ whether I shall leave you in employment where you are”’ (Edd.), P Grenf II. 5617 (A.D. 162-3) money paid ἐπὶ τὴν ἐπὶ τόπων δημοσίαν tpamef(av), ‘to the local public bank,” and so P Tebt II. 20415 (a.p. 146), P Oxy VIII. 11202 (early ili/A.D.) περὶ ἧς (Sc. ὕβρεως) πέπονθεν ἐπὶ τόπων, “ concerning the outrage suffered at his abode” (Fd.), 26, XIV. 1630° (A.D. 222 (?)) ἐπικουρήσας τοῖς κατὰ τόπον γεωργοῖς τά τε σπέρματα [καὶ τὰς δαπάνας "], ‘providing the local cultivators with both seed and expenses” (Edd.), 2d. VIT. 106814 (iii/A.D.) ἐφ᾽ ᾧ μηδὶς ἐνοχλήσι αὐτῷ (1. αὐτοῖς ἢ) κατὰ τόπον, “‘to the intent that no one in the neighbourhood should trouble them (?)” (Ed.), and 2d. VIII. 1162? (iv/a.D.) τοῖς κατὰ τόπον συνλιτουργοῖ[ς] πρεσβυτ[έ]ροις, ‘to the pres
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τόπος (topos) — place. τόπος, ὁ (feminine by attraction τόπον τὰν καλειμέναν Δαματρείαν [Refs 2nd c.BC+], place, region, first in [Refs 4th c.BC+], afterwards frequently in all writers; periphrastic, χθονὸς πᾶς τ., i.e. the whole earth, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν Ἑλλάδος τόποις in Greece,[Refs]; πρὸς ἑσπέρους τ. towards the West, [Refs]; πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνος τόπων before Salamis, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: so in Prose, district, ὁ τ. ὁ Ἑλληνικός [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ τ. οὗτος, ἐν τούτοις τοῖς τ., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅλος τ. a whole region, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ τῆς χώρας τ. the places of a country, [Refs] the geographical position, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; region, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ἅγιοστ., of Jerusalem, [LXX]; the universe divided into three τόποι, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ κοινοὶ τ. public sites or buildings, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οἰκίαι καὶ τόποι houses and sites, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; so ψιλοὶ τ. sites not built upon, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
2. place, position, οὐ τὸν τρόπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν τ. μόνον μεταλλάξαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὑπολιποῦ τ. leave a space (in a document), [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τ. ἔχειν have a place, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; φίλου τ. ἔχειν hold the place of.., [NT+2nd c.BC+]; τ. ἔχειν also = have room (to grow), [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τόπῳ with genitive, in place of, instead of, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀνὰ τόπον on the spot, immediately, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τόπου [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; παρὰ τόπον at a wrong place, [Refs 1st c.BC+] by virtue of the place and the time, [Refs]
3. place or part of the body, [Refs 5th c.BC+] in titles of works, e.g. περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων, περὶ συνθέσεως φαρμάκων τῶν κατὰ τόπου; especially ὁ τόπος, pudendum muliebre, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
4. place, passage in an author, κατὰ τόπους τινὰς τῆς ἱστορίας [NT+2nd c.BC+]; the word is probably interpolated in [Refs 5th c.BC+]
5. burial-place, [NT]; also in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+]; later ὁ ἅγιος τ. is frequently of the grave of a martyr, or of a monastery associated with it, [Refs 6th c.AD+]
6. in Egypt, district, department, a entry-division of the νομός, ={τοπαρχία}, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; οἱ ἔξω τ. uncertain meaning in [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
7. a room in a house, τόπον ἕνα ἄνευ ἐνοικίου [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; δύο τόπους ἤτοι συμπόσια [Refs 4th c.BC+]
8. position on the zodiac, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; especially the twelve regions[Refs 2nd c.AD+]
9. αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς καλεῖται τόπος, τῷ περιέχειν τὰ ὅλα [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. topic, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. common-place or element in Rhetoric, ὁ τοῦ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον τ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2. b ={ὁμολογουμένου πράγματος αὔξησις}, Hermog [Refs]
II.2. c generally, sphere, ὁ πραγματικὸς τ. [Refs 1st c.BC+]
III. metaphorically, opening, occasion, opportunity, ἐν τ. τινὶ ἀφανεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀργῇ διδόναι τ. [NT+1st c.AD+]; δότε τ. τῇ ὀργῇ leave room for the wrath (of God), i.e. let God punish, [NT+2nd c.BC+]; τ. διδόναι τινί with infinitive, give occasion to.., [LXX]