the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #7270 - רָגַל
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- to go on foot, spy out, foot it, go about, walk along, move the feet
- (Qal) to be a tale-bearer, slander, go about
- (Piel)
- to slander
- to go about as explorer, spy
- (Tiphel) to teach to walk
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2749) lcr (רגל RGL) AC: Trample CO: Foot AB: ?: [from: cr]
V) lcr (רגל RGL) - I. Spy:To be on foot walking through a foreign land in the sense of trampling. II. Slander:To trample another with the tongue. KJV (26): (vf: Paal, Piel) spy, view, backbite, espy, slander - Strongs: H7270 (רָגַל), H8637 (תִּרְגַּל)
Nf) lcr (רגל RGL) - I. Foot:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Festival:A festival requiring one to travel to in the sense of being on foot. KJV (254): foot, after, times, follow, toe, journey, leg - Strongs: H7271 (רְגַל), H7272 (רֶגֶל)
af1) elcrm (מרגלה MRGLH) - Foot: KJV (5): foot - Strongs: H4772 (מַרְגְּלוֹת)
fm) ilcr (רגלי RGLY) - Footman: One who is on foot. KJV (12): footman, foot - Strongs: H7273 (רַגְלִי)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal go about (maliciously, as slanderer; compare Arabic and slanderer, from √ √ wallk along, walk quickly), slander, Perfect 3 masculine singular עַללֿשֹׁנוֺ׳לאֹרֿ Psalm 15:3, he talks no slander upon his tongue ("" דֹּבֵר אֱמֶת Psalm 15:2).
Pi`el Imperfect 3 masculine singularוַיְרַגֵּל 2 Samuel 19:28,3masculine plural וַיְרַגְּלוּ Deuteronomy 1:24; Joshua 7:2; Imperative masculine plural רַגְּלוּ Joshua 7:2; Infinitive construct לְרֵגֵּל Numbers 21:32 5t.; suffix לְרַגְּלָהּ 2 Samuel 10:3; Participle plural מְרַגְּלִים Genesis 42:9 11t.; —
1 slander (compare Qal), בְּעַבְדְךָ אֶל׳וַיְר 2 Samuel 19:28.
2 go about as explorer, spy, with accusative of location Numbers 21:32; Joshua 6:25; Joshua 7:2 (twice in verse); Joshua 14:7 (all J E), Judges 18:2 ("" חָקַר), Judges 18:14; Judges 18:17; 2 Samuel 10:3 ("" חָקַר), 1 Chronicles 19:3, so also participle Genesis 42:30 (E), Joshua 6:22 (JE); participle, accusative omitted, as adjective, אֲנָשִׁים מְרַגְּלִים Joshua 2:1, compare Joshua 6:23 (both J E); as substantive, spies 1 Samuel 26:4; 2 Samuel 15:10, and so perhaps (as predicate) Genesis 42:9,11,14,16,31,34 (all E).
Tiph`el, Perfect 1 singular תִּרְגַּלְתִּי לְאֶפְרַיִם Hosea 11:3 I taught Ephraim to walk (si vera 1.; see Ges§ 55h).
רִגֵל ( treader, fuller (compare כבס), so Thes SS and others) see ׳עֵין ר, II. עַיִן
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רָגַל pr. to move the feet, to go, to tread (denom. from רֶגֶל, cogn. to רָכַל), specially
(1) to go about, to calumniate and slander; hence to calumniate, Psalms 15:3.
(2) to tread upon garments which are to be washed and cleansed from dirt; hence רֹגֵל a washer, a fuller. See the pr.n. עֵין רֹגֵל and רֹגְלִים.
Piel, i.q. Kal, to go about
(a) to calumniate, 2 Samuel 19:28 followed by בְּ of pers.
(b) in order to explore; to explore; followed by an acc. Joshua 14:7; Judges 18:2, 14 Judges 18:14, 17 Judges 18:17; 2 Samuel 10:3, etc. Part. מְרַגֵּל a spy, an explorer, Genesis 42:9, seq.; Joshua 6:22.
Tiphel תִּרְגֵּל i.q. Syr. ܫܪܰܓܶܠ to teach to go, to lead (children) by the hand, Hosea 11:3.