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Bible Glossary — Meanings of Bible Words
Clear explanations of the words you meet in the Bible, each grounded in the passages where they are used. Where a meaning depends on interpretation, we say so.
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- Sabbath day's journeyThe distance a person could walk on the Sabbath under Jewish tradition. Acts says the Mount of Olives was a Sabbath day's…
- ShekelA unit of weight, used especially for silver, roughly 11 grams. Before coins, payments were weighed out in shekels.
- SpanThe width of a spread hand, from thumb tip to little finger tip, about half a cubit (roughly 22 centimetres).
- Stadion (furlong)A Greek measure of distance, about 185 metres. John says the disciples had rowed twenty-five or thirty stadia when they saw Jesus…
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