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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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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Bowshot'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/b/bowshot.html. 1915.

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