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Footman
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foot'-man
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
(no entry)
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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 ( 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 , 14:28
; 2
Kings 11:4 , 11:6
, 11:11
, 11:13
, 11:19
; 2
Chronicles 12:10 , 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 )
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
foot'-man.
See WAR.

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