ragli · on foot

What it means

ragli (רַגְלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “on foot”.

A grown man who marches on foot.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. People or soldiers walking, not mounted.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 12:37

  The sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones.

• Numbers 11:21

  But Moses said, “Six hundred thousand on foot are the people among whom I am, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’

• Judges 20:2

  And the leading men of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of Elohim, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.

• 1 Samuel 4:10

  So the Philistines fought, and Israel was struck down, and they fled each to his tent; and the blow was very great, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

• 1 Samuel 15:4

  Saul summoned the people and counted them at Telaim: two hundred thousand foot soldiers, and ten thousand men of Judah.

• 2 Samuel 8:4

  David captured from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, and left of them a hundred chariots.

• 2 Samuel 10:6

  When the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired Aram of Beth-rehob and Aram of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

• 1 Kings 20:29

  They encamped these opposite those seven days. And it happened on the seventh day that the battle was joined; and the sons of Israel struck Aram, a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.

• 2 Kings 13:7

  For he had not left Jehoahaz any people except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had made them perish and made them like the dust at threshing.

• 1 Chronicles 18:4

  David captured from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, and left of them a hundred chariots.

• 1 Chronicles 19:18

  Aram fled before Israel, and David killed of Aram seven thousand chariots and forty thousand foot soldiers; and Shophach, the commander of the army, he put to death.

• Jeremiah 12:5

  If with men on foot you have run and they have wearied you, how will you compete with the horses? And in a land of peace you feel secure, but how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?