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Bowshot
BOWSHOT [isbe]
BOWSHOT - bo'-shot: Found only in Gen 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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