To dance
כָּרַרStrong’s H3769karar (ka-rar)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Karar is the Hebrew word usually translated “dancing”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.”
Meaning
- (Pilpel) to whirl, dancewhirling, dancing (participle)
How it's translated
- dancing 1
- and dancing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּרַר karar · to dance
1) (Pilpel) to whirl, dance 1a) whirling, dancing (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
D'ANCE, verb intransitive
- Primarily, to leap or spring; hence, to leap or move with measured steps, regulated by a tune, sung or played on a musical instrument; to leap or step with graceful motions of the body, corresponding with the sound of the voice or an instrument.“There is a time to mourn, and a time to dance” Ecclesiastes 3:4
- To leap and frisk about; to move nimbly or up and down.
All definitions and other forms of “dance”
D'ANCE, verb transitive
To make to dance; to move up and down, or back and forth; to dandle; as, to dance a child on the knee.
D'ANCE, noun
- In general sense, a leaping and frisking about.
- A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
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.