- Transliteration: Topos

- Phonetic: top'-os

- Definition:

1. place, any portion or space marked off, as it were from surrounding space

a. an inhabited place, as a city, village, district

b. a place (passage) in a book

2. metaph.

a. the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly

b. opportunity, power, occasion for acting

- Origin: apparently a primary word

- TDNT entry: 11:07,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: Apparently a primary word; a spot (generally in space but limited by occupancy; whereas G5561" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5561 is a larger but particular locality) that is location (as a position home tract etc.); figuratively condition opportunity; specifically a scabbard: - coast licence place X plain quarter + rock room where.