מָחוֹל
mâchôwl · H4234 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to dance
Action by which humans dance a round dance; associated with joy
ExamplesPsalm 30:11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have untied my sackcloth and encircled me with joy,
Psalm 149:3 They shall praise His name with dancing; They shall sing praises to Him with tambourine and lyre.
Psalm 150:4 Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flute.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- שָׂחַקto laugh, to play 1
- נוּour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָפַךְto turn, to change, to overturn 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 8
- לto/for 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- χορός chorós · G5525 · to dance, dancing
- Hebrew מָחוֹל and Greek χορός both denote the act of dancing or a dance event, with χορός specifically emphasizing the circular or group choreography aspect that characterizes communal dance in both cultural contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Turn002002001020
- מָחוֹל denotes dancing, a circling or turning bodily movement, as in the celebrations that greeted David after Goliath's defeat (1 Samuel 18:6) and Israel's worship of the golden calf (Exodus 32:19).
- Names of People003001007
- The fact-packet data also assigns the Names of People domain here, shared with its proper-noun homograph Mahol (מָחוֹל (Mâchôwl, H4235)), the father of Heman, Calcol, and Darda (1 Kings 4:31).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4234. machol מָחוֺל noun masculineLam 5:15 dance; — absolute׳מ Psa 30:12 Psa 30:3t.;…
מָחוֺל noun masculineLam 5:15 dance; — absolute׳מ Psa 30:12 Psa 30:3t.; construct מְחוֺל Jer 31:4; מְחוֺלֵנוּ Lam 5:15; — dance, token of joyousness Psa 30:12 (opposed to מספד), Jer 31:4, Jer 31:13 (compare vb), Lam 5:15 (opposed to אֵבֶּל); act of praise to ׳י Psa 149:3; Psa 150:4; accompanied by timbrel (תֹּף) and sometimes other instruments Psa 149:3; Psa 149:4; Jer 31:13.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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