This noun primarily means a throw or cast, especially of a missile or stone. In Luke 22:41, Jesus withdrew from the disciples "about a stone's throw" away in Gethsemane—a distance measurement based on how far one could hurl a stone. Classical usage includes dice throws, javelin casts, and metaphorically, quick glances or sunbeams. The translations handle this idiomatically: Spanish tiro ("throw"), French jet ("cast"), German retaining the Greek, all recognizing it as a unit of distance rather than an action of throwing in this context.