1 Chronicles 12:2
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):

Young's Literal Translation
armed with bow, right and left handed, with stones, and with arrows, with bows, of the brethren of Saul, of Benjamin.

King James Bible
[They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

Hebrew
they were archers
נֹ֣שְׁקֵי (nō·šə·qê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5401: To kiss, to equip with weapons

using both the right
מַיְמִינִ֤ים (may·mî·nîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 3231: To go to or choose the right, to use the right hand

and left
וּמַשְׂמִאלִים֙ (ū·maś·mi·lîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 8041: To use the left hand, pass in that direction)

[to sling] stones
בָּֽאֲבָנִ֔ים (bā·’ă·ḇā·nîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 68: A stone

and [to shoot] arrows;
וּבַחִצִּ֖ים (ū·ḇa·ḥiṣ·ṣîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2671: A piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear

[they were] Saul's
שָׁא֖וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

kinsmen
מֵאֲחֵ֥י (mê·’ă·ḥê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 251: A brother, )

from Benjamin:
מִבִּנְיָמִֽן׃ (mib·bin·yā·min)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1144: Benjamin -- 'son of the right hand', youngest son of Jacob, also the name of two other Israelites

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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