To skip about
רָקַדStrong’s H7540raqad (ra-qad)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raqad is the Hebrew word usually translated “dancing”, “leap about” and “made skip them”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.”
Meaning
- To skip about(Qal) to skip about · (Piel) to dance, leap · (Hiphil) to make to skip
How it's translated
- dancing 1
- they leap about 1
- and he made skip them 1
- they skipped about 1
- you will skip about 1
- to dance 1
- they will leap about 1
- they leap 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Isaiah 1
- Joel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- Psalms 29:6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- Psalms 114:4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
- Psalms 114:6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
- Ecclesiastes 3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Hebrew dictionary
רָקַד raqad · to skip about
1) to skip about 1a) (Qal) to skip about 1b) (Piel) to dance, leap 1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dancing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
D'ANCING, participle present
tense Leaping and stepping to the sound of the voice or of an instrument; moving in measured steps; frisking about.
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.