Definition

a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course

Etymology

from the base of G2476 (ἵστημι) (as fixed);

Word family

• ἵστημι hístēmi

How the KJV renders it

• furlong
• race

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.