Greek n-m/n · G4712
G4712
a measure of length = 600 Greek feet or 1⁄8 of a Roman mile; a race-course
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4712is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4712
a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course
The King James renders it: furlong, race.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
G4712 is rendered "a measure of length = 600 Greek feet or 1⁄8 of a Roman mile; a race-course". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a measure of length = 600 Greek feet or 1⁄8 of a Roman mile".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 14:24but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
Matthew 14:24σταδίους
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's seven uses are in John.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a measure of length = 600 Greek feet or 1⁄8 of a Roman mile, and a race-course.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a measure of length = 600 Greek feet or 1⁄8 of a Roman mileMat.14:24 (Rec., WH, txt., R, mg.), Luk.24:13, Jhn.6:19 11:18, Rev.14:20 21:16, and, this being the length of the Olympic course | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 14:24but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. |
| a race-course1Co.9:24.† (AS) | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σταδίους3
- σταδίων3
- σταδίῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural3N-APM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural3N-GPM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN
Matthew
one use
but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
- σταδίουςstadiousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: stadia
Luke
one use
That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
- σταδίουςstadiousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: stadia
John
two uses
When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the sea—and they were terrified.
- σταδίουςstadiousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: stadia
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,
- σταδίωνstadionnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: stadia
1 Corinthians
one use
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
- σταδίῳstadionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: a race course
Revelation
two uses
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
- σταδίωνstadionnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: stadia
The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
- σταδίωνstadionnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: stadia
Where it leads
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How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.