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Strong's G2460 ἱππεύς (hippeus)

Hippeus means “horseman” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2460 — cheleb (“Heleb”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2460
Language Greek
Linked Usages 66
Books 26

Strong's G2460 Quick Answer

Strong's G2460 ἱππεύς (hippeus) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hippeus (hip-pyoos') n. 1. an equestrian, i.e. member of a cavalry corps [from G2462] It has 66 linked Bible usages across 26 books. Visible English usage signals include horsemen, chariots, thousand, king, and hundred. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
hippeus (hip-pyoos') n. 1. an equestrian, i.e. member of a cavalry corps [from G2462]
Usage
66 linked usages
Books
26 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
horsemen, chariots, thousand, king, and hundred

Meaning and Definition

hippeus (hip-pyoos') n. 1. an equestrian, i.e. member of a cavalry corps [from G2462] KJV: horseman Root(s): G2462

Original Word
ἱππεύς
Transliteration
hippeus
Derivation
Root: ἵππος R1: 2462
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2460. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

horseman

Usage: ἱππεύς, -έως (on accusative pl., -εῖς, ν. BI., § 8, 2; Thack., Gr., 148), ὁ (ἵππος), [in LXX chiefly for פָּרָשׁ ;] a horseman: Act.23:23, 32.† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

horsemen chariots thousand king hundred men footmen horses against out into went

How Strong's G2460 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 42 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2460 (ἱππεύς) appears 65 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2460 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2460 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 23:23 KJV

And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;

Acts 23:32 KJV

On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

Strong's G2460 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

42 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 49:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And let Dan be a serpent in the way, Besetting the path, Biting the heel of the horse (And the rider shall fall backward),

Genesis 50:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And there went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great company.

Exodus 14:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Egyptians pursued after them, and found them encamped by the sea; and all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharaoh, and the horsemen, and his host were before the village, over against Baal-zephon.

Strong's G2460 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

22 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 5:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical instruments, tabrets and flutes.

1 Esdras 8:51 Septuagint / Brenton

for I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.

Judith 2:15 Septuagint / Brenton

and he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto a hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;

Usage Excerpts

First 66 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2460.

Genesis 49:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let Dan be a serpent in the way, Besetting the path, Biting the heel of the horse (And the rider shall fall backward),
Genesis 50:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great company.
Exodus 14:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Egyptians pursued after them, and found them encamped by the sea; and all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharaoh, and the horsemen, and his host were before the village, over against Baal-zephon.
1 Kingdoms 8:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, This shall be the manner of the king that shall rule over you: he shall take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and among his horsemen, and running before his chariots,
1 Kingdoms 13:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Philistines gather together to war with Israel; and then come up against Israel thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the seashore for multitude: and they come up, and encamp in Michmash, opposite Beth-aven southward.
2 Kingdoms 8:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David took a thousand of his chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all his chariot horses, and he reserved to himself a hundred chariots.
2 Kingdoms 10:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Syria fled from before Israel, and David destroyed of Syria seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and he smote Shobach the captain of his host, and he died there.
3 Kingdoms 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king; and he prepared for himself chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
3 Kingdoms 10:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For Solomon had a ship of Tarshish in the sea with the ships of Hiram: one ship came to the king every three years out of Tarshish, laden with gold and silver, and wrought stones, and hewn stones.
3 Kingdoms 21:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
smote each one the man next to him; and each one a second time smote the man next to him: and Syria fled, and Israel pursued them; and the son of Hadad, even the king of Syria, escapes on the horse of a horseman.
4 Kingdoms 2:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha saw, and cried, Father, father, the chariot of Israel, and the horseman thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his garments, and rent them into two pieces.
4 Kingdoms 13:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereas there was not left any army to Jehoahaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.
4 Kingdoms 13:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now Elisha was sick of his sickness, whereof he died: and Joash king of Israel went down to him, and wept over his face, and said, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horseman thereof!
4 Kingdoms 18:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one petty governor from among the least of my lord’s servants? whereas thou trustest for thyself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen.
1 Chronicles 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacah, and from Zobah.
2 Chronicles 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Solomon collected chariots and horsemen: and he had fourteen hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he set them in the cities of chariots, and the people were with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 8:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Baalath, and all the strong cities which Solomon had, and all his chariot cities, and cities of horsemen, and all things that Solomon desired according to his desire of building, in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all his kingdom.
2 Chronicles 8:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Solomon did not make any of the children of Israel servants in his kingdom; for, behold, they were warriors and rulers, and mighty men, and captains of chariots and horsemen.
2 Chronicles 9:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Solomon had four thousand mares for chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he put them in the chariot cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 16:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a great force, in courage, in horsemen, in great numbers? and did not He deliver them into thy hands, because thou trustedst in the Lord?
2 Chronicles 23:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So they let her go out; and she went through the horsemen’s gate of the house of the king, and they slew her there.
Ezra 8:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Nehemiah 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Esther 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Job 1:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, And surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, And slew the servants with the sword; And I only escaped, and am come to tell thee.
Isaiah 21:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.
Isaiah 22:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be that thy choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up thy gates.
Jeremiah 4:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man dwelt in them.
Jeremiah 26:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and harness the horses: mount, ye horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breastplates.
Ezekiel 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
She doted upon the sons of the Assyrians, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men.
Ezekiel 26:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring up against thee, O Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations.
Ezekiel 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain.
Ezekiel 27:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Out of the house of Togarmah horses and horsemen furnished thy market.
Ezekiel 38:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will gather thee, and all thy host, horses and horsemen, all wearing breastplates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords:
Daniel 11:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And at the end of the time he shall conflict with the king of the south: and the king of the north shall come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and they shall enter into the land: and he shall break in pieces, and pass on:
Hosea 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.
Joel 2:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their appearance is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they pursue.
Amos 2:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in nowise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.
Nahum 2:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion
Nahum 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies
Habakkuk 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hastening to eat.
Acts 23:23 New Testament, KJV
And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
Acts 23:32 New Testament, KJV
On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
1 Esdras 5:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical instruments, tabrets and flutes.
1 Esdras 8:51 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
for I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.
Judith 2:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto a hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;
Judith 2:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then he went forth and all his power to go before King Nebuchadnezzar in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, and horsemen and their chosen footmen.
Judith 2:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then he took all his army, his footmen, and horsemen, and chariots, and went from thence into the hill country;
Judith 7:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then their strong men removed their camps in that day, and the army of the men of war was a hundred and seventy thousand footmen, and twelve thousand horsemen, beside the baggage, and other men that were afoot among them, a very great multitude.
Judith 7:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus all the company of Assyria remained about them, both their footmen, chariots, and horsemen, four and thirty days, so that all their vessels of water failed all the inhabitants of Bethulia.
1 Maccabees 1:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,
1 Maccabees 6:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So that the number of his army was a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants exercised in battle.
1 Maccabees 15:41 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when he had built up Kedron, he set horsemen there, and a host of footmen, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.
1 Maccabees 16:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that night at Modein.
1 Maccabees 16:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen came against them: howbeit there was a water brook between them.
1 Maccabees 16:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: for the enemies’ horsemen were very many.
2 Maccabees 5:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers,
2 Maccabees 10:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were slain of footmen twenty thousand and five hundred, and six hundred horsemen.
2 Maccabees 11:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
not at all considering the power of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
2 Maccabees 11:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And giving a charge upon their enemies like lions, they slew eleven thousand footmen, and sixteen hundred horsemen, and put all the other to flight.
2 Maccabees 12:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their journey toward Timothy, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.
2 Maccabees 12:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Maccabeus ranged his army by bands, and set them over the bands, and went against Timothy, who had about him a hundred and twenty thousand men of foot, and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.
2 Maccabees 12:33 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
who came out with three thousand men of foot and four hundred horsemen.
2 Maccabees 12:35 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
At which time Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback, and a strong man, was still upon Gorgias, and taking hold of his coat drew him by force; and when he would have taken that cursed man alive, a horseman of Thrace coming upon him smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled unto Marisa.
2 Maccabees 13:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, a hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2460, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 9 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2460 FAQ

What does hippeus (ἱππεύς) mean?

Hippeus (Strong's G2460) is a Greek word most simply glossed "horseman". hippeus (hip-pyoos') n. 1. an equestrian, i.e. member of a cavalry corps [from G2462]

How many times is hippeus (ἱππεύς) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 66 linked usages for Strong's G2460 across 26 books.

Where can I study hippeus (ἱππεύς) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2460 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate hippeus (ἱππεύς)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as horsemen, chariots, thousand, king, hundred, and men. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2460 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 42 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 22 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2460, with linked reader references where each row is available.