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.
Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'BOWSHOT'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.