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a word employed in the English Bible in two senses:
Generally, to distinguish those of the fighting men who went on foot from those who were on horseback or in chariots;
In a more special sense, in (
1 Samuel 22:17
) 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 (
1 Kings 14:27
1 Kings 14:28
;
2 Kings 11:4
2 Kings 11:6
2 Kings 11:11
2 Kings 11:13
2 Kings 11:19
;
2 Chronicles 12:10
2 Chronicles 12:11
) 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 - (
1 Kings 14:27
;
2 Kings 11:13
)