Lexical Definition

‎τόπος‎ tópos (top'-os) place ^G:N-M
apparently a primary word

coast, licence, place, X plain, quarter, + rock, room, where.

• a spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy
• whereas ‎χώρα‎ is a large but participle locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.)
• figuratively, condition, opportunity
• specially, a scabbard

Abbott-Smith

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.).

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

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]

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: 1Cor.14.16 ☩ Luke.4.17 ☩ Mark.16.6 ☩ Eph.4.27 ☩ Rom.12.19 ☩ Heb.12.17}