מְחֹלָה
mᵉchôlâh · H4246 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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to dance
Action by which humans dance a round dance; associated with joy
ExamplesExodus 15:20 Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
Exodus 32:19 And it came about, as soon as Moses approached the camp, that he saw the calf and the people dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
Judges 11:34 But Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, and behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. And she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַחֲנֶהcamp, army 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 8
- כlike/as 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
- Greek χορός denotes the same core concept of dancing/dance as Hebrew מְחֹלָה, with both terms referring to group dancing or dance gatherings; χορός specifically emphasizes the circular or ring formation characteristic of ancient group dances, while מְחֹלָה more broadly encompasses the company or assembly engaged in dancing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Turn002002001020
- מְחֹלָה denotes dancing, the same circling movement as its related form מָחוֹל (mâchôwl, H4234), as in the women's celebratory dancing after David's victory (1 Samuel 21:11).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4246. mecholah [מְחוֺלָה] noun feminine id.; — construct מְחֹלַת Cant 7:1; plural…
[מְחוֺלָה] noun feminine id.; — construct מְחֹלַת Cant 7:1; plural מְחֹלֹת Exo 32:19; מְחֹלוֺת Exo 15:20 Exo 15:5t.; dancing, token of joyousness after victory, Jdg 11:34; 1Sa 18:16; 1Sa 21:12; 1Sa 29:5; in worship, at feast Jdg 21:21; act of praise to ׳י Exo 15:20 (song); in idolatrous worship Exo 32:19 (E); as graceful and beautiful Cant 7:1; accompare by timbrel Exo 15:20; Jdg 11:34, and by singing Exo 15:20; 1Sa 18:6 (where however read probably Po`lel Participle הַמְּחֹלְלוֺת, compare verb חוּל above; so ᵐ5 We Dr), 1Sa 21:12; 1Sa 29:5.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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