Topic
Furlong
5 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Luke 24:13Easton · ISBE · Nave One-eighth of a mile
¶ And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
- John 11:18Easton · ISBE · Nave One-eighth of a mile
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
- Revelation 21:16Easton · ISBE · Nave One-eighth of a mile
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
- John 6:19Easton · ISBE
So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
- Revelation 14:20Easton · ISBE
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
A stadium, a Greek measure of distance equal to 606 feet and 9 inches (Luke 24:13; John 6:19; 11:18; Rev. 14:20; 21:16).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.