Reference: Footman
Fausets
(1) Distinguished from the soldier on horseback or in a chariot.
(2) The swift runners who attended the king; foretold by Samuel 1Sa 8:11 (1Ki 14:27 margin). Swift running was much valued in a warrior (Ps 19:5; Joe 2:7; Job 16:14). A characteristic of David, for which he praises God (1Sa 17:22,48,51; 20:6; 2Sa 22:30; Ps 18:29; compare 1Ch 12:8 to end).
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Samuel said: These are the rights of a king: He will draft your sons and make them serve on his chariots and horses, and make them run ahead of his chariots.
David left his things with the man in charge of supplies. He ran up to the battle line to ask his brothers if they were well.
He ran to him and stood over him. David took Goliath's sword out of its sheath and cut off his head to kill him. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead they ran away.
If your father notices that I am not at the table, tell him that I begged your permission to hurry home to Bethlehem. It is after all the time for the annual sacrifice there for my whole family.
King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.
Some brave and experienced warriors from the tribe of Gad also defected to David while he was at the stronghold in the wilderness. They were expert with both shield and spear, as fierce as lions and as swift as deer on the mountains.
He breaks through me with breach after breach. He runs at me like a warrior.
With you I can attack a line of soldiers. With my God I can break through barricades.
It comes out of its chamber like a bridegroom. Like a champion, it is eager to run its course.
They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like men of war. They march every one on his way and do not break their ranks.
Hastings
This word is used in two different senses: 1. A foot-soldier, always in plur. 'footmen,' foot-soldiers, infantry. Footmen probably composed the whole of the Isr. forces (1Sa 4:10; 15:4) before the time of David. 2. A runner on foot: 1Sa 22:17 (Authorized Version margin 'or guard, Heb. runners'; RV 'guard,' Revised Version margin 'Heb. runners'). 'Runners' would be the literal, and at the same time the most appropriate, rendering. The king had a body of runners about him, not so much to guard his person as to run his errands and do his bidding. They formed a recognized part of the royal state (1Sa 8:11; 2Sa 15:1); they served as executioners (1Sa 22:17; 2Ki 10:25); and, accompanying the king or his general into battle, they brought back official tidings of its progress or event (2Sa 18:18). In Jer 12:5 both the Heb. and the Eng. (footmen) seem to be used in the more general sense of racers on foot.
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The Philistines fought and defeated Israel. Every Israelite soldier fled to his tent. It was a major defeat in which thirty thousand Israelite foot soldiers died.
Samuel said: These are the rights of a king: He will draft your sons and make them serve on his chariots and horses, and make them run ahead of his chariots.
Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem. There were two hundred thousand soldiers from Israel and ten thousand from Judah.
The king said to the guards who were attending him: Turn around and kill the priests of Jehovah! They are also with David. They knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to lift a hand to attack the priests of Jehovah.
The king said to the guards who were attending him: Turn around and kill the priests of Jehovah! They are also with David. They knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to lift a hand to attack the priests of Jehovah.
During his lifetime Absalom built a monument for himself in King's Valley. He had no son to keep his name alive. So he named it after himself. To this day it is known as Absalom's Monument.
Jehovah says: Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against people, how can you race against horses? If you cannot even stand up in open country, how will you manage in the thicket by the Jordan?
Morish
1. ragli, 'on foot:' often used for the foot soldiers in distinction from those in chariots or on horseback. Nu 11:21; Jg 20:2; 1Ch 18:4; etc. In Jer 12:5 it is applied to those that ran.
2. ruts, 'runner.' 1Sa 22:17. Samuel said that their king would make some of them to run before his chariot. 1Sa 8:11. Such are commonly employed in the East to run before the great, to clear the way for them.
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Moses said to Jehovah: Here I am leading six hundred thousand people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month?
The leaders of all the tribes of Israel were present at this gathering of God's people. There were four hundred thousand foot soldiers.
Samuel said: These are the rights of a king: He will draft your sons and make them serve on his chariots and horses, and make them run ahead of his chariots.
The king said to the guards who were attending him: Turn around and kill the priests of Jehovah! They are also with David. They knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to lift a hand to attack the priests of Jehovah.
Jehovah says: Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against people, how can you race against horses? If you cannot even stand up in open country, how will you manage in the thicket by the Jordan?
Smith
Footman,
a word employed in the English Bible in two senses:
1. Generally, to distinguish those of the fighting men who went on foot from those who were on horseback or in chariots;
2. In a more special sense, in
only, and as the translation of a different term from the above --a body of swift runners in attendance on the king. This body appears to have been afterwards kept up, and to have been distinct from the body-guard --the six hundred and thirty-- who were originated by David. See
1Ki 14:27-28; 11/4/type/nsb'>2Ki 11:4,6,11,13,19; 2Ch 12:10-11
In each of these cases the word is the same as the above, and is rendered "guard," with "runners" in the margin in two instances -
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The king said to the guards who were attending him: Turn around and kill the priests of Jehovah! They are also with David. They knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to lift a hand to attack the priests of Jehovah.
King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.
King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates. The guards carried the shields every time the king went to the Temple and then returned them to the guardroom.