Thing

Stadium

Human-made Things in the Bible

The stadium was an open, oval area (frequently including a racetrack) around which was built an enclosed series of tiers of seats for those who came to watch the spectacles.

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

ἱππόδρομος hippodromos · 3 verses
παλαίστρα palaistra · 1 verse
στάδιον stadion · 1 verse

Also in Municipal structures

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema