noun · masculine
stadios
Strong’sG4712
a stade (unit of distance)
stem stadi-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
στάδιον, -ου, τό pl., στάδια (Jo 6:19, T), and metapl., στάδιοι (v. B1., § 9, 1),
[in LXX: Da LXX 4:9, Su 37, II Mac 11:5 12:9 ff. *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4712 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstad'-ee-on
a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course
Fromfrom the base of G2476 (as fixed);
King Jamesfurlong, race.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἵστημι) standing fast and firm, σ. ὑσμίνη close fight, fought hand to hand, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐνὶ σταδίῃ (i.e. ὑσμίνῃ) Refs 8th c.BC+, compare σταδαῖο; [πῖδαξ] σταδίη μένει, of a spring from which no water flows, Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 firm, fixed, θάλαμοι Refs 5th c.BC+. immobility, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 standing upright or straight, σ. χιτών,= ὀρθοστάδιον, an ungirt tunic hanging in straight plaits, Refs 3rd c.BC+, compare στατό; θώραξ σ. a stiff breastplate, plate-armour, opposed to στρεπτός or ἁλυσιδωτός, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II (ἵστημι A.IV) weighed, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | stadios | stadiois |
| object accusative | stadion | stadioin4×σταδίους |
| direct address vocative | stadior | stadioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | stadiou | stadioiu2×σταδίων |
| to, for dative | stadio | stadioi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
stadio is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
stadioin“stadia”objectaccusative plural4×
Matthew 14:24“stadia distant”tem de ploiem ēdē stadioin polloin apo tau gēau apechate, basanizorōntem …but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because …
Luke 24:13“stadia … distant”… hēmera ale poreuorōntois eis kōman apecharōntan stadioin hexēkonta apo Ierousalēm, ha onomem Emmaouas,That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
John 6:19“stadia”elaunarēntois oun hōs stadioin eikosi pente ē triakonta theōralō ton …… they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching …
Revelation 21:16… metrata tan polan to kalamo epi stadioin dōdeka chiliadaiu; tem mēkem kai tem …… and all its dimensions were equal — 12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
stadioiu“stadia”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
John 11:18“stadia”… Bēthanias engus teiu Hierosolumeiu hōs apo stadioiu dekapente.Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,
Revelation 14:20… achri toiu chalinoiu toiu hippoiu apo stadioiu chilioi hexakosioi.… the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.