Strong’s H7540 · Hebrew
רָקַד
râqad · raw-kad'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
In the King James Version dance, jump, leap, skip.
In 9 verses of the King James Version
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.