Dict: smith - FOOTMAN

smith:

FOOTMAN - F>@ - a word employed in the English Bible in two senses: Generally, to distinguish those of the fighting men who went on foot from those who were on horseback or in chariots; In a more special sense, in ( kjv@1Samuel:22:17) only, and as the translation of a different term from the above
a body of swift runners in attendance on the king. This body appears to have been afterwards kept up, and to have been distinct from the body-guard
the six hundred and thirty
who were originated by David.
See (Kings:14:27-28; kjv@2Kings:11:4-6 kjv@2Kings:11:11-13,19; kjv@2Chronicles:12:10-11) In each of these cases the word is the same as the above, and is rendered "guard," with "runners" in the margin in two instances - (Kings:14:27; kjv@2Kings:11:13)