Strong's #4712: spuris (pronounced spoo-rece')

from the base of 2476 (as fixed); a stade or certain measure of distance; by implication, a stadium or race-course:--furlong, race.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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stadion

1) a space or distance of about 600 feet (185 m)

2) a race course

2a) place in which contests in running were held, the one who outstripped the rest and reached the goal first, receiving the prize. Courses of this description were found in most of the larger Greek cities, and were like that at Olympia, 600 Greek feet in length

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: (as fixed)

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Luke 24:13: "which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs."
John 6:19: "five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking"
John 11:18: "Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:"
1 Corinthians 9:24: "that they which run in a race run all, but"
Revelation 14:20: "bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."
Revelation 21:16: "with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length"