Words the Bible translates as race
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- genosγένοςa group that belongs together by common origin: offspring, a people, or a kind of thing
- agōnἀγώνa strenuous struggle: a hard, sustained contest against opposition, often carried on in public and pictured as an athletic match run toward a prize.
- stadiosστάδιοςa stade: the standard Greek unit of long distance, six hundred Greek feet, so roughly two hundred yards or an eighth of a Roman mile.
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- the running track: the straight, marked course where a Greek city held its footraces.
- merotsמֵרוֹץracenot studied yet
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