τόπος, τόπου, ὁ, in Attic from Aeschylus and his contemporaries on; the Sept. îÈ÷åí; place; i. e.:

1. properly, any portion of space marked off, as it were, from surrounding, space; used of

a. an inhabited place, as a city, village, district: Luk 4:37; Luk 10:1; Act 12:12; Act 16:3; Act 27:2; Act 27:8; 1Co 1:2; 2Co 2:14; 1Th 1:8; Rev 18:17 (G L T Tr WH); τόν τόπον καί τό ἔθνος, the place which the nation inhabit, i. e. the holy land and the Jewish people, Joh 11:48 (cf. 2Ma 5:19 f); τόπος ἅγιος, the temple (which the Sept. of Isa. Ix. 13 calls ὁ ἅγιος τόπος τοῦ Θεοῦ), Mat 24:15. of a house, Act 4:31. of uninhabited places, with adjectives: ἔρημος, Mat 14:13; Mat 14:15; Mar 1:35; Mar 6:31; Luk 4:42; Luk 9:10 R G L, 12; πεδινός, Luk 6:17; ἄνυδρος, plural, Mat 12:43; Luk 11:24. of any place whatever: κατά τόπους (R. V. in divers places) i. e. the world over (but see κατά, II. 3 a. α.), Mat 24:7; Mar 13:8; (ἐν παντί τόπῳ, 2Th 3:16 Lachmann); of places in the sea, τραχεῖς τόποι, Act 27:29 (R. V. rocky ground); τόπος διθάλασσος (A. V. place where two seas met); Act 27:41. of that ’place’ where what is narrated occurred: Luk 10:32; Luk 19:5; Luk 22:40; Joh 5:13; Joh 6:10; Joh 18:2. of a place or spot where one can settle, abide, dwell: ἑτοιμάζειν τίνι τόπον, Joh 14:2 f, cf. Rev 12:6; ἔχειν τόπον, a place to dwell in, Revelation, the passage cited; οὐκ ἦν αὐτοῖς τόπος ἐν τῷ καταλύματι, Luk 2:7; διδόναι τίνι τόπον, to give one place, give way to one, Luk 14:9 a; τόπος οὐχ εὑρέθη αὐτοῖς, Rev 20:11; of the seat which one gets in any gathering, as at a feast, Luk 14:10; τήν ἔσχατον τόπον, κατέχειν, Luk 14:9 b; of the place or spot occupied by things placed in it, Joh 20:7. the particular place referred to is defined by I the words appended: — by a genitive, τόπος τῆς βασάνου, Luk 16:28; τῆς καταπαύσεώς, Act 7:49; κρανίου, Mat 27:33; Mar 15:22; Joh 19:17; (τόν τόπον τῶν ἥλων, Joh 20:25 b L T Tr marginal reading); — by the addition of οὗ, ὅπου, ἐφ’ or ἐν ᾧ, followed by finite verbs, Mat 28:6; Mar 16:6; Joh 4:20; Joh 6:23; Joh 10:40; Joh 11:6; Joh 11:30.; ; Act 7:33; Rom 9:26; — by the addition of a proper name: τόπος λεγόμενος, or καλούμενος, Mat 27:33; Mar 15:22; Luk 23:33; Joh 19:13; Rev 16:16; ὁ τόπος τίνος, the place which a person or thing occupies or has a right to: Rev 2:5; Rev 6:14; Rev 12:8; where a thing is hidden, τῆς μαχαίρας, i. e. its sheath, Mat 26:52. the abode assigned by God to one after death wherein to receive his merited portion of bliss or of misery: (ὁ ἴδιος τίνος (τίνος), universally, Ignatius ad Magnes. 5, 1 [ET] (cf. ὁ αἰώνιος τόπος, Tob 3:6)); applied to Gehenna, Act 1:25 (see ἴδιος, 1 c.); ὁ ὀφειλόμενος τόπος, of heaven, Polycarp, ad Philip. 9, 2 [ET]; Clement of Rome, 1Co 5:1-13; 1Co 4:1-21 [ET]; also ὁ ἅγιος τόπος, ibid. 5, 7 [ET]; (ὁ ὡρισμένος τόπος the Epistle of Barnabas 19, 1 [ET]; Act. Paul et Thecl. 28; see especially Harnack’s note on Clement of Rome, 1Co 5:1-13; 1Co 4:1-21 [ET]).

b. a place (passage) in a book: Luk 4:17 (καί ἐν ἄλλῳ τόπῳ φησίν, Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 20 ((but this is doubtful; cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 4; yet cf. Kühner, ad loc.); Philo de Joseph., § 26; Clement of Rome, 1Co 8:1-13; 1Co 4:1-21 [ET]); in the same sense χώρα in Josephus, Antiquities 1, 8, 3).

2. metaphorically,

a. the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly: ἀναπληρουν τόν τόπον τοῦ ἰδιώτου (R. V. filleth the place of the unlearned), 1Co 14:16; τῆς διακονίας ταύτης καί ἀποστολῆς (R. V. the place in this ministry, etc.), Act 1:25 L T Tr WH.

b. opportunity, power, occasion for acting: τόπον λαμβάνειν τῆς ἀπολογίας, opportunity to make his defense, Act 25:16 (ἔχειν τῆς ἀπολογίας, Josephus, Antiquities 16, 8, 5); τόπον διδόναι τῇ ὀργή (namely, τοῦ Θεοῦ), Rom 12:19; τῷ δαιβόλω, Eph 4:27 (τῷ ἰατρῷ, to his curative efforts in one’s case, Sir 38:12; νόμῳ ὑψίστου, Sir 19:17; τόπον διδόναι τινα, followed by an infinitive, Sir 4:5); τόπος μετανοίας εὑρίσκειν, Heb 12:17, on this passage, see εὑρίσκω, 3 (διδόναι. Wis 12:10; Clement of Rome, 1Co 7:1-40; 1Co 5:1-13 [ET]; Latinlocum relinquere paenitentiae, Livy 44, 10; 24, 26; (Pliny, epistle ad Trajan 96 (97), 10 cf. 2); ἔχειν τόπον μετανοίας, Tat. or. ad Graec. 15 at the end; διά τό μή καταλείπεσθαι σφισις τόπον ἐλέους μηδέ συγγνωμης, Polybius 1, 88, 2); τόπον ἔχειν namely, τοῦ εὐαγγελίζεσθαι, Rom 15:23; ἐζητεῖτο τόπος, with a genitive of the thing for which influence is sought among men: διαθήκης, passive Heb 8:7 ((cf. μέμφομαι)). [SYNONYMS: τόπος 1, χώρα, χωρίον: τόπος 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 (Joh 4:5), circumscribed; a definite portion of space viewed as enclosed or complete in itself; τόπος and χωρίον (plural, R. V. lands) occur together in Act 28:7. Cf. Schmidt, chapter 41.]