foot
re.gel denotes bodily feet, with uses for movement, position beneath someone, contact with land, and an annual observance.
The noun most often identifies bodily feet in descriptions of health, clothing, washing, and physical posture. Its observed uses also place people or things beneath someone, describe movement and a sole's contact with land, and occur once in a clause about three annual celebrations.
Senses in use
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Bodily feet in physical description and care · dominant
Dual construct forms occur in bodily settings: in 1 Kings 15:23 the APB renders Asa as diseased “in his feet,” while 2 Samuel 11:8 gives David's instruction to wash Uriah's feet. The same bodily reference appears with bronze greaves in 1 Samuel 17:6 and with the remaining skull, feet, and palms in 2 Kings 9:35.
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Feet in movement, standing, and rising · common
The forms accompany bodily movement or stance: Jonathan climbs “on his hands and feet” in 1 Samuel 14:13, the revived man rises to his feet in 2 Kings 13:21, and the cherubim stand on their feet in 2 Chronicles 3:13. In 1 Kings 14:12, the APB renders the feet entering the city, linking the term with arrival on foot.
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Position at or beneath someone's feet · common
The term marks a spatial relation in scenes of deference or defeat. Abigail falls at David's feet in 1 Samuel 25:24, the woman takes hold of the man of God's feet in 2 Kings 4:27, and defeated opponents fall under the speaker's feet in 2 Samuel 22:39. In 2 Samuel 15:17, the APB places the people “at his foot” as the king comes out.
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Sole touching land or marking extent · occasional
Singular construct forms occur where a sole meets land or indicates its extent. In Deuteronomy 11:24, the APB renders every place on which the sole of the foot treads as territory; Deuteronomy 28:65 describes having no resting place for the sole of the foot. Deuteronomy 2:5 uses a singular absolute form in the statement that no foot's breadth of land will be given.
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Annual celebration occasions · rare
A plural absolute form appears in Exodus 23:14 in the command to celebrate three times in the year. The APB presents the clause as an annual schedule, but its translation does not isolate the term's individual contribution.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB commonly uses “foot” or “feet,” including “sole of your foot” in land-contact clauses and “at his foot” in a spatial clause. In Exodus 23:14 it instead renders the annual clause as “Three times in the year”; That wording cannot by itself fix the term's precise contribution.