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Horseman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A rider on horseback.

2. A man skilled in riding.

3. A soldier who serves on horseback.

Horseman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.

2. A mounted soldier; a cavalryman.

3. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.

4. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).

Horsemanship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of riding, and of training and managing horses.

Horsemanship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.

Horsemanship Encyclopedia Britannica

HORSEMANSHIP. See Horse, p. 195.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 12, p. 206
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3 KJV and 5 BSB verses contain “Horseman”

2 Kings 9:17

And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”

2 Kings 9:18

So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.

So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”

2 Kings 9:19

Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”

Jeremiah 4:29

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.

Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

Amos 2:15

Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.

Nahum 3:3

The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—

2 Maccabees 12:35

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 Thracia coming upon him smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled unto Marisa.