H7540: רָקַד
râqad · pronounced raw-kad' · “to skip about”
Definition
properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
KJV translates it as: dance, jump, leap, skip.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to skip about
1b) (Piel) to dance, leap
1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7540 is translated
- ! ×2
- dancing ×1
- them ×1
- they skipped about ×1
- you will skip about ×1
- to dance ×1
- they will leap about ×1
- jolting ×1
Bible verses with H7540 (râqad)
Râqad appears in 9 verses.
- 1 Chronicles 15:29
And 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 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- Psalms 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- Psalms 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
- Psalms 114:6
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
- Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- Isaiah 13:21
But 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 2:5
Like 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 3:2
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.