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).
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