Bowshot (ISBE)

DIC dictionary-entry · status:draft · license:PD

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.

Source

• part_of source-manifest/isbe — ISBE (PD)