רַגְלִי
rag.li
“on foot”
Definition
a footman (soldier)
from H7272 (רֶגֶל);
- on foot 1a) man on foot, footman, foot soldier
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Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
רַגְלִי appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
For seven days the armies camped opposite each other, and on the seventh day the battle ensued, and the Israelites struck down the Arameans—a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
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