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hebrew #7540 - רָקַד raqad (to skip about)


Original Word:רָקַד
Transliteration: raqad
Definition:to skip about
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(raw-kad')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

dance, jump, leap, skip

A primitive root; properly, to stamp, i.e. To spring about (wildly or for joy) -- dance, jump, leap, skip.


Englishman's Concordance

1) to skip about
1a) (Qal) to skip about
1b) (Piel) to dance, leap
1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2214

Brown-Driver-Briggs

רָקַדverbskip about (Late Hebrew Pi`el, Hiph`il=Biblical Hebrew; so Aramaic רְקַד Pa`el, Pa`el; Assyrian ra‡âdu, skip, dance;, Arabic IX. run with leaps and bounds, leaping up briskly); —

Qalskip about, Perfect3masculine plural רָֽקְדוּPsalm 114:4 (of mountains, כְּאֵילִים); Imperfect2masculine plural תִּרְקְדוּPsalm 114:6 (id.; both of Sinai quaking at law-giving); Infinitive constructעֵת רְקוֺדEcclesiastes 3:4 a time to mourn (סְפֹד), and a time to skip about (gaily).

Pi`eldance, leap: Imperfect3masculine plural יְרַקְּדוּIsaiah 13:21 (of שְׂעִירִים); יְרַקֵּר֑וּןJob 21:11 (of children; merrily), Joel 2:5(of locusts); Participleמְרַקֵּד1 Chronicles 15:29 (of David;=מְכַרְכֵּר, מְפַזֵּז, in "" 2 Samuel 6:14,16); feminine singular מְרַקֵּדָהNahum 3:2 (of jolting chariots); in 2 Samuel 6:21 a insert אֲרַקֵּדI will dance, after ׳לִפְנֵי י, ᵐ5 Th We Dr Bu HPS (מְרַקֵּד).

Hiph`ilImperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיַּרְקִידֵםPsalm 29:6he (׳י) made them skip like calves (trees, by lightning).

רַקָּה see I. רקק. רַקּוֺן see II. רקק.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 7540. רָקַד (raqad) — 9 Occurrences

1 Chronicles 15:29
HEB:הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִיד֙ מְרַקֵּ֣ד וּמְשַׂחֵ֔ק וַתִּ֥בֶז
NAS: David leaping and celebrating;
KJV: David dancing and playing:
INT: King David leaping and celebrating despised

Job 21:11
HEB:עֲוִילֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝יַלְדֵיהֶ֗ם יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃
NAS: And their children skip about.
KJV: and their children dance.
INT: their little and their children skip

Psalm 29:6
HEB: וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥ם כְּמוֹ־ עֵ֑גֶל
NAS: He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
KJV:He maketh them also to skip like a calf;
INT:skip like A calf

Psalm 114:4
HEB: הֶֽ֭הָרִים רָקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת
NAS: The mountains skipped like rams,
KJV: The mountains skipped like rams,
INT: the mountains skipped rams the hills

Psalm 114:6
HEB: הֶֽ֭הָרִים תִּרְקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת
NAS: O mountains, that you skip like rams?
KJV: Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams;
INT: mountains you skip rams hills

Ecclesiastes 3:4
HEB:סְפ֖וֹד וְעֵ֥ת רְקֽוֹד׃
NAS: to mourn and a time to dance.
KJV: to mourn, and a time to dance;
INT: to mourn time to dance

Isaiah 13:21
HEB:יַֽעֲנָ֔ה וּשְׂעִירִ֖ים יְרַקְּדוּ־ שָֽׁם׃
NAS: and shaggy goats will frolic there.
KJV: there, and satyrs shall dance there.
INT: Ostriches and shaggy will frolic there

Joel 2:5
HEB:רָאשֵׁ֤י הֶֽהָרִים֙ יְרַקֵּד֔וּן כְּקוֹל֙ לַ֣הַב
NAS: as of chariots They leap on the tops
KJV: of mountains shall they leap, like the noise
INT: the tops of the mountains leap the crackling of a flame

Nahum 3:2
HEB:דֹּהֵ֔ר וּמֶרְכָּבָ֖ה מְרַקֵּדָֽה׃
NAS: horses And bounding chariots!
KJV: horses, and of the jumping chariots.
INT: Galloping chariots and bounding

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