Dance
מְחוֹלָהStrong’s H4246mecholah (me-cho-lah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mecholah is the Hebrew word usually translated “dancing”, “dances” and “like dance of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.”
Meaning
- Dancing, dance
How it's translated
- and with dancing 2
- in dances 2
- and dancing 1
- and the dancing 1
- with dances 1
- like dance of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
- Exodus 2
- Judges 2
- Song of Solomon 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 32:19And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
- Judges 11:34And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
- Judges 21:21And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
- 1 Samuel 18:6And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
- 1 Samuel 21:11And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
- 1 Samuel 29:5Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
Hebrew dictionary
מְחוֹלָה mecholah · dance
dancing, dance
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.