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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He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'
King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;
For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.
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 Israel was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in memory." He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.
If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of 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, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.'
The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of 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/web'>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 guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.