Strong H7540רָקַד
to skip about
- Transliteration
- râqad
- Pronunciation
- raw-kad'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; properly to {stamp} that {is} to spring about (wildly or for joy): - {dance} {jump} {leap} skip.
Detailed definition
1) to skip about
1a) (Qal) to skip about
1b) (Piel) to dance, leap
1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip
1a) (Qal) to skip about
1b) (Piel) to dance, leap
1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip
In the Bible
Strong H7540 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- dance3
- skip3
- dancing1
- jumping1
- leap1
First verses
- 1 Chronicles 15:29And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
- Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- Psalms 29:6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- Psalms 114:4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
- Psalms 114:6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
- Ecclesiastes 3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
- Joel 2:5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
- Nahum 3:2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.