Dance
מָחוֹלStrong’s H4234machol (ma-chol)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machol is the Hebrew word usually translated “dancing”, “into dancing” and “dancing of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;”
Meaning
- Dance, dancing
How it's translated
- with dancing 2
- into dancing 1
- and dancing 1
- in dancing of 1
- dancing our 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 2
- Lamentations 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
- Psalms 150:4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
- Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
- Jeremiah 31:13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
- Lamentations 5:15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Hebrew dictionary
מָחוֹל machol · dance
dance, dancing
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.