Guard.
1. mishmaath, from 'obedience,' a body-guard. 2 Samuel 23:23; 1 Chronicles 1:11.
2. mishmar, a place where watch was kept. Nehemiah 4:22, Nehemiah 1:4; Ezekiel 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, 1 Kings 1:14; 2 Kings 1:10; 2 Kings 1:11-19; 2 Chronicles 1:12, 2 Chronicles 1:12.
4. tabbach, slaughterer, executioner, attached to the body-guard of the king Genesis 37:36; Daniel 2:14. This Hebrew word occurs in every other passage where the word 'guard' occurs.