Definition
a primitive root; properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
Traditional renderings: dance, jump, leap, skip.
Traditional renderings: dance, jump, leap, skip.
Usage patterns
Occurrences
9 total
- 1 Chronicles 15:29מְרַקֵּ֣ד · dancingAs the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
- Job 21:11יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃ · skip aboutThey send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- Psalm 29:6וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥ם · skipHe makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
- Psalm 114:4רָקְד֣וּ · skipped…the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- Psalm 114:6תִּרְקְד֣וּ · that you skippedO mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
- Ecclesiastes 3:4רְקֽוֹד׃ · to dance…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
- Isaiah 13:21יְרַקְּדוּ־ · will leap aboutBut desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- Joel 2:5יְרַקֵּד֔וּן · they boundWith a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
- Nahum 3:2מְרַקֵּדָֽה׃ · and boundingThe crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!