Definition

room, i.e. a space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its inhabitants)

Etymology

feminine of a derivative of the base of G5490 (χάσμα) through the idea of empty expanse;

Where the KJV renders it

• coast
• county
• fields
• ground
• land
• region

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.