Quick Definition
χῶρος, ου, ὁ n.m. the north-west wind
Strong's Definition
of Latin origin; the north-west wind
KJV Usage: north west
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου
82.5 · Spacial Orientations · North, South, East, West
northwest the direction between north and west The difference in expression is due to designating the directions of the wind either as the direction from which the wind comes or the direction toward which the wind blows. See commentaries.
In rendering directions which are not cardinal points, one may often use a variety of expressions, for example, ‘between north and west’ or ‘from the north a little west’ or ‘to the north of west.’ A high percentage of languages designate directions by reference to the rising and setting of the sun. Accordingly, ACT 27:12 may be rendered as ‘a harbor that is open to the sea to the left of the setting sun and to the right of the setting sun.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
χῶρος, -ov, 6, the north-west wind (Lat. Corus or Caurus): for the quarter of the heavens from which this wind blows, Acts xxvii. 12 (on which see Ady, 2).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
χῶρος chōros 1x
Corus, or Caurus, the northwest wind; meton, the northwest quarter of the heavens, Acts 27:12*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† χῶρος, -ου, ὁ (Lat. corus), the N.W. wind: Ac 27:12.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
χῶρος 2. as prep. c. gen. ‘‘apart from,” ‘‘ without”: (a) of persons—P Oxy VI. 9321° (late ii/A.D.) τὰ χοιρίδια χωρὶς μοῦ μὴ πώλι, ‘do not sell the young pigs without me” (Edd.), and BGU III. 9204 (a.p, 180-181) χωρὶς κυρίου κατὰ τὰ “Pwpatfwv ἔθη. (b) of things—P Tebt I. 61 (α)} Ὁ (B.c. 118-117) χωρὶς σπέρματος Kal τῆς ἄλλης δα(πάνης), P Oxy IX. 1211" (medical receipt—ii/a.p.) πᾶν ἄρωμα χωρὶς λιβάνου, ‘every spice except frankincense.”’ (c) of abstract nouns (cf. Philem!, and the equivalent P Tebt I. 104*8 (8.6, 92) ἄνευ τῆς Φιλίσκου γνώ[μ]ης)--P Oxy IL. 237% 25 (a.p. 186) χωρὶς λόγον, 2. VIII. 112871 (A.D. 173) χωρὶς ὑπερθέσεως, “without delay,” and 76. VIII. 1130! (A.D. 484) χωρὶς ἐνγραφοῦς ἐντάγιον (= -lov), ‘‘ without a written deed.” 3 = ‘“‘besides”: (a) the object being excluded—P Oxy VIII. 112418 (A.D. 26) χωρὶς τῶν προκειμένων, ‘apart from the amounts aforesaid,” P Ryl 11. 1381% (a.p. 34) χωρὶς δὲ τούτου κατέλαβα τοῦτον... ., ‘over and beyond this 1 detected him . . .” (Edd.), P Amh 11. 859 (A.D. 78) χωρὶς τῆς kat ἄρουραν ἀρταβιήας, ‘‘excluding the tax of an artaba on each aroura” (Edd.), 26. 861 (A.D. 78) χωρὶς γνησίων δημοσίων, ‘‘excluding public charges proper”’ (Edd.), P Oxy I. ror! (A.p. 142) σπεῖραι καὶ ξυλαμῆσαι οἷς ἐὰν αἱρῆται χωρὶς ἰσάτεως καὶ dxopeviov, the lessee “‘may sow and gather whatever crops he chooses with the exception of woad and coriander (?)” (Edd.), 26. TV. 724° (A.D. 155) apprenticeship to a shorthand-writer at a certain salary χωρὶς ἑορτικῶν, ‘excluding holidays.” (b) the object being included, as in Mt 1421, 1538, 2 Cor 11°8;—P Oxy II. 2497 (supplementary property return— A.D, 80) ἀπογράφομαι. . χωρὶς τῶν προαπεγραψάμην , ‘‘I register in addition to what I have previously registered . . .,” P Ryl II. 1752 (A.D. 168) χωρὶς ἄλλων ὧν ὀφείλουσι, ‘apart from other sums which they owe” (Edd.), and BGU II. 393% (A.D. 168) ἄλλο δὲ οὐδὲ ἁπλῶς τελέσω τῷ καθόλου χωρὶς τῶν προκειμένων. 4. For χωρίς c. inf. cf. P Lond 11664 (Α.}. 42) (= III. Ρ- 105) χωρὶς τοῦ παράσχεσθαι τοὺς ὁμολοῦντας (1. ὁμολογοῦντας) τὴν καῦσιν-- “1 reference to the heating of baths, and BGU III. 55917 (ii/a.p.) ἐπελεζύ]σεσθαι τρόπῳ μηδενὶ... χωρὶς Tod μένειν κύρια καὶ τὰ προγεγρ(αμμένα). With 1 Cor 14° ἐκτὸς εἰ μὴ διερμηνεύῃ (cl. 15", 1 Tim 51%), cf. C. and B. ii. p. 391, No. 254 χωρὶς εἰ μή τι πάθῃ ἡ θυγάτηρ pov. Mayser Gv. p. 245 cites a shortened form χῶρι from P Amh II. 1135 (A.D. 157) x@pt ἄλλων, but the same document shows χωρίς a few lines further down, 35 χω[ρὶ]ς ἄλλων. As in the case of all the prepositions, the monographs of Kuhring, Rossberg, and Regard (see Abbreviations I. General) should be consulted.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
χῶρος (chōros) — northwest. χῶρος, ὁ, north-west wind, Latin corus, [NT]