What Does “Stadion (furlong)” Mean in the Bible?
Measure
A measure of distance of about 185 meters, about 600 feet.
A detail
- Careful: it is not a sports stadium.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 24:13; John 6:19
What the Bible says
Luke 24:13
And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.
John 6:19
When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing nigh to the ship, and they were afraid.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “estadio”