Bowshot

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]

bō´shot  : Found only in  Genesis 21:16 in the account of Hagar and her child: "And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot," literally "stretchings of a bow," a typical oriental way of indicating distance.

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