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Furlong in the Bible Dictionary
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One-eighth of a mile
Luke 24:13; John 11:18; Rev 21:16
13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
Luke 24:1318 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
John 11:1816 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Revelation 21:16
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
