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Guard.


1. mishmaath, from 'obedience,' a body-guard. 2 Sam. 23: 23; 1 Chr.

11: 25.


2. mishmar, a place where watch was kept. Neh. 4: 22, 23; Ezek. 38: 7.


3. ruts, 'to run,' runners, state couriers, who published edicts in the provinces, some of which would always be with the king. 1 Kings 14: 27, 28; 2 Kings 10: 25; 2 Kings 11: 4-19; 2 Chr. 12: 10, 11.


4. tabbach, slaughterer, executioner, attached to the body-guard of the king Gen. 37: 36; Dan. 2: 14. This Hebrew word occurs in every other passage where the word 'guard' occurs.