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To leap

σκιρτάωStrong’s G4640

skirtaō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Skirtaō is the Greek word usually translated “leaped” and “do leap for joy”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:”
Luke 1:41 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “leaped” and “do leap for joy”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • leaped 2
  • do leap for joy 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 3

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

σκιρτάω skirtaō · to leap

σκιρτάω, -ῶ [in LXX: Gen.25:22 (רָצַץ hithpo.), Psa.114:4, 6 (רָקַד), etc. ;] to leap: Luk.1:41, 44 6:23.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “leap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LEAP, verb intransitive

[Latin labor, perhaps. Heb.]

  1. To spring or rise from the ground with both feet, as man, or with all the feet, as other animals; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
  2. To spring or move suddenly; as, to leap from a horse.
  3. To rush with violence.“And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them -” Acts 19:16
  4. To spring; to bound; to skip; as, to leap for joy.
All definitions and other forms of “leap”
  1. To fly; to start. Job 41:19

LEAP, verb transitive

  1. To pass over by leaping; to spring or bound from one side to the other; as, to leap a wall, a gate or a gulf; to leap a stream. [But the phrase is elliptical, and over is understood.]
  2. To compress; as the male of certain beasts.

LEAP, noun

  1. A jump; a spring; a bound; act of leaping.
  2. Space passed by leaping.
  3. A sudden transition of passing.
  4. The space that may be passed at a bound.
  5. Embrace of animals.
  6. Hazard, or effect of leaping.
  7. A basket; a weel for fish. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.