| (1.00) | (Mic 4:3) |
3 tn Heb “[for many nations] to a distance.” |
| (0.85) | (Exo 20:18) |
6 tn Heb “and they stood from/at a distance.” |
| (0.71) | (Gen 21:16) |
1 sn A bowshot would be a distance of about a hundred yards (ninety meters). |
| (0.71) | (Psa 38:11) |
3 tn Heb “and the ones near me off at a distance stand.” |
| (0.63) | (Jos 3:4) |
1 tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.” |
| (0.56) | (Exo 14:10) |
3 tn Heb “lifted up their eyes,” an expression that indicates an intentional and careful looking – they looked up and fixed their sights on the distance. |
| (0.56) | (2Sa 7:19) |
1 tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O |
| (0.56) | (1Ch 17:17) |
1 tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O God, so you spoke concerning the house of your servant for a distance.” |
| (0.56) | (2Ch 25:23) |
1 tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m). |
| (0.56) | (Job 5:10) |
1 tn Heb “who gives.” The participle continues the doxology here. But the article is necessary because of the distance between this verse and the reference to God. |
| (0.56) | (Mat 14:24) |
1 tn Grk “The boat was already many stades from the land.” A stade (στάδιον, stadion) was a unit of distance about 607 feet (187 meters) long. |
| (0.56) | (Luk 24:13) |
3 tn Grk “sixty stades” or about 11 kilometers. A stade (στάδιον, stadion) was a unit of distance about 607 feet (187 meters) long. |
| (0.56) | (Rev 14:20) |
4 tn Grk “1,600 stades.” A stade was a measure of length about 607 ft (185 m). Thus the distance here would be 184 mi or 296 km. |
| (0.54) | (Exo 5:3) |
1 tn The word “journey” is an adverbial accusative telling the distance that Moses wanted the people to go. It is qualified by “three days.” It is not saying that they will be gone three days, but that they will go a distance that will take three days to cover (see Gen 31:22-23; Num 10:33; 33:8). |
| (0.54) | (2Ki 5:19) |
2 tn Heb “and he went from him a distance of land.” The precise meaning of כִּבְרַה (kivrah) “distance,” is uncertain. See BDB 460 s.v. כִּבְרַה, and HALOT 459-60 s.v. II *כְּבָרַה, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 65. |
| (0.54) | (Act 1:12) |
4 sn The phrase a Sabbath day’s journey refers to the distance the rabbis permitted a person to travel on the Sabbath without breaking the Sabbath, specified in tractate Sotah 5:3 of the Mishnah as 2,000 cubits (a cubit was about 18 inches). In this case the distance was about half a mile (1 km). |
| (0.50) | (Jdg 3:16) |
1 tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142. |
| (0.49) | (Num 35:4) |
1 tn Heb “one thousand cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) in length, so this would be a distance of 1,500 feet or 500 yards (675 meters). |
| (0.49) | (Num 35:5) |
2 tn Heb “two thousand cubits” (also three more times in this verse). This would be a distance of 3,000 feet or 1,000 yards (1,350 meters). |
| (0.49) | (Jos 3:4) |
1 sn The precise distance is uncertain, but the measurement designated אַמָּה (’ammah, “cubit”) was probably equivalent to approximately eighteen inches (one and one-half feet, or 45 cm) in length. |

