στάδιον
stádion
“a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course”
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Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
pr. a fixed standard of measure; a stadium, the eighth part of a Roman mile, and nearly equal to a furlong, containing 201.45 yards, about 192 meters, Lk. 24:13; Mt. 14:24; Jn. 6:19; 11:18; Rev. 14:20; 21:16; a race-course, a race, 1 Cor. 9:24*
Translated in KJV as
furlongrace
Etymology
from the base of G2476 (ἵστημι) (as fixed);
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