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# רַגְלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7273

**on foot** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

on foot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7273/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַגְלִי: adj. on foot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7273/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. on foot;—אִישׁ ר׳ (after num.) footmen, especially foot-soldiers, Ju 20:2; 2 S 8:4 = 1 Ch 18:4; 1 Ch 19:18 (פָּרָשִׁים in ‖ 2 S 10:18); elsewhere ר׳ as subst., usually coll., of Isr. at Exod. Ex 12:37; Nu 11:21 (both JE); = foot-soldiery 1 S 4:10; 15:4; 2 S 10:6; 1 K 20:29; 2 K 13:7; n. pl. רַגְלִים footmen, men on foot Je 12:5 (opp. הַסּוּסִיס).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: foot soldier\[s\] (7); on foot (4); foot soldiers (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 12:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.37/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֖ס סֻכֹּ֑תָה כְּשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֨וֹת אֶ֧לֶף רַגְלִ֛י הַגְּבָרִ֖ים לְבַ֥ד מִטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel from Rameses to Succoth \[were\].about six hundred(s) thousand foot.soldier\[s\] the men apart from little.one\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

[Judges 20:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.2/#tree)

וַיִּֽתְיַצְּב֞וּ פִּנּ֣וֹת כָּל־הָעָ֗ם כֹּ֚ל שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בִּקְהַ֖ל עַ֣ם הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֛לֶף אִ֥ישׁ רַגְלִ֖י שֹׁ֥לֵֽף חָֽרֶב׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.presented.themselves the.corners of.all the people all the.tribes of.Israel in the.assembly of.the.people of.(the) God four hundred(s) thousand man on.foot \[who\].drew a.sword

*JPS 1917:* And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7273.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7273/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).