ΣΤΑΔΙΟΝ, σταδιον
STADION, stadion
Sounds Like: sta-DEE-on
Translations: stadium, a stadium, race course, a race course, furlong, a furlong
From the root: ΣΤΑΔΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a stadium or a race course, a place where athletic contests, especially footraces, were held. It can also denote a measure of distance, specifically a furlong, which was approximately 600 Greek feet or about 200 meters. It is used to describe both the physical location and the unit of measurement.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G4712 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 21:34
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 9:3
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Polycarp of Smyrna
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:37
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΑΔΙΟΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΗΜΙΣΤΑΔΙΩΝ — of half-stadiums, of half-furlongs
- ΣΤΑΔΙΑ — stadia, furlongs, races, race-courses, arenas
- ΣΤΑΔΙΟΙ — stadiums, stadia, racecourses, races, stages
- ΣΤΑΔΙΟΙΣ — (in) stadia, (in) race-courses, (in) stades
- ΣΤΑΔΙΟΥ — (of) a stadium, (of) a race-course, (of) a furlong
- ΣΤΑΔΙΟΥΣ — stadia, furlongs, race-courses, a stadium, a furlong, a race-course
- ΣΤΑΔΙΩ — stadion, a stadium, a furlong, a race-course
- ΣΤΑΔΙΩΝ — of a stadium, of stadia, of a race-course, of a race-track, of a furlong
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