G4712 – stadion – στάδιον – furlong, race
- Strong’s ID:
- G4712
- Greek Word:
- στάδιον
- Transliteration:
- stadion
- Pronunciation:
- stad’-ee-on
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 6
- Search:
- Find “stadion” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
or masculine (in plural) σταδιος stadios stad’-ee-os; from the base of G2476 (as fixed); a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course:—furlong, race.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a space or distance of about 600 feet (185 m)
2) a race course
2a) 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
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.