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G4712

στάδιον

stadion

Neuter noun · Or masculine (in plural) stadios {stad'-ee-os}, from the base of ἵστημι (G2476) (as fixed)

From the base of G2476 (as fixed); a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course:—furlong, race.

Outline

  1. a space or distance of about 600 feet (185 m)
  2. a race course
    1. place in which contests in running were held, the one who outstripped the rest and reached the goal first, receiving the prize. Courses of this description were found in most of the larger Greek cities, and were like that at Olympia, 600 Greek feet in length

Usages

Luke 24:13

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

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John 6:19

So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

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John 11:18

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

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1 Corinthians 9:24

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

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Revelation 14:20

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

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Revelation 21:16

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

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