Word

ὀρχέομαι

orchéomai · G3738 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to dance, dancing

Patterned rhythmic movements of the whole and/or parts of the body, normally to the accompaniment of music

Examples
Matthew 11:17 and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not mourn.’
Matthew 14:6 But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: you (more than one) 2
θυγάτηρdaughter 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνin+ μέσοςin the midst, among 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

οὐnot 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

To dance, dancing15.244: ὀρχέομαι describes the physical act of dancing, as when the daughter of Herodias performs before Herod at his birthday feast: “the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.” (Mark 6:22)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀρχοῦμαι: 1 aorist ὠρχησαμην; (from χορός, by transposition ὄρχος; cf. ά῾ρπω, ἁρπάζω, and…

ὀρχοῦμαι: 1 aorist ὠρχησαμην; (from χορός, by transposition ὄρχος; cf. ά῾ρπω, ἁρπάζω, and Latinrapio, μορφή and Latinforma; (but these supposed transpositions are extremely doubtful, cf. Curtius, § 189; Fick 4:207, 167. Some connect ὀρχέομαι with the root, argh, 'to put in rapid motion'; cf. Vanicek, p. 59)); to dance: Mt 11:17; Mt 14:6; Mk 6:22; Lk 7:32. (From Homer down; the Sept. for רָקַד, 1 Chr 15:29; Ecclus. 3:4; 2 Sam 6:21.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Dance4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0