1. place, location, position — A physical location, spot, or designated area. This is the dominant sense of 'topos' in the NT, covering all ninety-four occurrences which refer to geographic places, positions, or spaces. The multilingual evidence is highly consistent across both original clusters: Spanish 'lugar/lugares,' Hindi 'sthan/jagah/sthanon,' Arabic 'makan/amakina,' Korean 'got/jangso,' Swahili 'mahali/nafasi/sehemu.' The two clusters differ only in grammatical number—singular forms (AMS, NMS, GMS, DMS) vs plural forms (GMP, AMP, DMP). The semantic range includes specific named places, generic locations, spatial positions, and metaphorical 'room/opportunity' (as in 'give place to wrath'), but the core meaning of a defined spatial location unifies all occurrences. 94×
AR["المَكانُ","المَكَانُ","المَكَانِ","المَوضِعَ","قَفرٍ","مَكانٍ","مَكَانٌ","مَكَانٍ","مَكَانُ","مَكَانِ","مَكَانِهِ","مَوضِعَ"]·ben["জায়গা","জায়গায়","জায়গার","স্থান","স্থানে"]·DE["Ort"]·EN["Place","a-place","place","room"]·FR["lieu"]·heb["הַ-מָקוֹם","מְקוֹם","מְקוֹמ-וֹ","מָקוֹם"]·HI["अलग-में","और","न-ग्रहण-करे","स्थन","स्थान"]·ID["Tempat","itu","tempat","tempatnya"]·IT["luogo"]·jav["Panggenan,","panggenan","panggenan,","panggenan-punika,"]·KO["곳","곳,","곳-에","곳-을","곳에","곳으로","곳의","곳이","곳이,","자리-가","장소","장소라고","장소로","장소를"]·PT["lugar"]·RU["Место","места","месте","место","место,"]·ES["lugar"]·SW["mahali","nafasi","pa-faragha","paitwapo","pake","patakatifu"]·TR["yer","yerde","yere","yeri","yerin","yerine"]·urd["جگہ","جگہ-","جگہ-میں","جگہ-کے"]
Matt 14:13, Matt 14:15, Matt 14:35, Matt 24:15, Matt 26:52, Matt 27:33, Matt 27:33, Matt 28:6, Mark 6:11, Mark 6:31, Mark 6:32, Mark 6:35 (+38 more)
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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…