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Footman.


1. ragli, 'on foot:' often used for the foot soldiers in distinction from those in chariots or on horseback. Num. 11: 21; Judges 20: 2; 1 Chr. 18: 4; etc. In Jer. 12: 5 it is applied to those that ran.


2. ruts, 'runner.' 1 Sam. 22: 17. Samuel said that their king would make some of them to run before his chariot. 1 Sam. 8: 11. Such are

commonly employed in the East to run before the great, to clear the way for them.