רַגְלִיraglîy
footmen, especially foot-soldiers, men on foot (Judges 20:2; 2 Samuel 8:4; 1 Chronicles 18:4; 1 Chronicles 19:18; 2 Samuel 10:18)
Pronunciation: rag-lee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7273
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 12:37 That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men, plus all the women and children.
- Numbers 11:21 But Moses responded to the Lord, “There are 600,000 foot soldiers here with me, and yet you say, ‘I will give them meat for a whole month!’
- Judges 20:2 The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel—400,000 warriors armed with swords—took their positions in the assembly of the people of God.
- 1 Samuel 4:10 So the Philistines fought desperately, and Israel was defeated again. The slaughter was great; 30,000 Israelite soldiers died that day. The survivors turned and fled to their tents.
- 1 Samuel 15:4 So Saul mobilized his army at Telaim. There were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 men from Judah.
- 2 Samuel 8:4 David captured 1,000 chariots, 7,000 charioteers, and 20,000 foot soldiers. He crippled all the chariot horses except enough for 100 chariots.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).