To leap
דָּלַגStrong’s H1801dalag (da-lag)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dalag is the Hebrew word usually translated “leap over”, “leaping” and “leap”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.”
Meaning
- To leap(Qal) to leap · (Piel) to leap, leap over
How it's translated
- i leap over 2
- leaping 1
- he will leap 1
- leaps 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
- Zephaniah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 18:29For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
- Song of Solomon 2:8The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
- Isaiah 35:6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
- Zephaniah 1:9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּלַג dalag · to leap
1) to leap 1a) (Qal) to leap 1b) (Piel) to leap, leap over
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.]
- 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.
- To spring or move suddenly; as, to leap from a horse.
- To rush with violence.“And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them -” Acts 19:16
- To spring; to bound; to skip; as, to leap for joy.
All definitions and other forms of “leap”
- To fly; to start. Job 41:19
LEAP, verb transitive
- 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.]
- To compress; as the male of certain beasts.
LEAP, noun
- A jump; a spring; a bound; act of leaping.
- Space passed by leaping.
- A sudden transition of passing.
- The space that may be passed at a bound.
- Embrace of animals.
- Hazard, or effect of leaping.
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.