רָקַד
râqad · H7540 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to dance, to skip, to bound
Action with which humans or animals move in a quick and light or lively way
Examples1 Chronicles 15:29 When the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.
Job 21:11 “They send out their boys like the flock, And their children dance.
Psalm 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, The hills, like lambs.
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Literally: to cause to skip; hence: causative action by which a deity causes nature to move or shake (to cause (mountains) to skip, jump)
ExamplesPsalm 29:6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, And Sirion like a young wild ox.
How it’s used In 6 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
8 occurrences in 8 groups
- הַרmountain 1
- יֶלֶדchild, young man 1
- מֶלֶךְking 1
- מֶרְכָּבָהchariot 1
- שָׂעִירmale goat, goat 1
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- כlike/as+ אַיִלram 2
- כְּמוֹas, like+ עֵגֶלmale calf 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
- כlike/as+ קוֹלvoice, sound 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁםthere 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵתtime, moment, period 1
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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Near synonyms 4 words
- זָנַק zânaq · H2187 · to leap forth
- Both verbs share the sense of leaping. רָקַד (râqad, H7540) covers a broader range (dance, jump, leap, skip), while זָנַק (zânaq, H2187) denotes leaping specifically; in that shared sense they could substitute for one another.
- כָּרַר kârar · H3769 · to dance
- Both denote dancing or leaping movements.
- דָּלַג dâlag · H1801 · to leap, to bound, to step over
- Both words describe similar voluntary movements, leaping, skipping and jumping, and could substitute for each other in many contexts.
- קָפַץ qâphats · H7092 · to shut (one's) mouth, to become silent, to be speechless
- Both share the sense of leaping or skipping. רָקַד (râqad, H7540) is focused on dancing and leaping motion, whereas קָפַץ (qâphats, H7092) has a much broader range, including shutting up, stopping and taking out of the way. The overlap is limited to a part of קָפַץ (qâphats, H7092)'s range.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- 1 Chronicles 15:29 describes King David "dancing and celebrating," and Psalm 29:6 and 114:4, 6 all describe mountains that "skipped like rams," richly and directly attesting the sense of leaping or dancing motion.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7540. raqad רָקַד verb skip about (Late Hebrew Pi`el, Hiph`il = Biblical Hebrew; so…
רָקַד verb skip 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); —
Qal skip about, Perfect3masculine plural רָֽקְדוּ Psa 114:4 (of mountains, כְּאֵילִים); Imperfect2masculine plural תִּרְקְדוּ Psa 114:6 (id.; both of Sinai quaking at law-giving); Infinitive construct רְקוֺד עֵת Ecc 3:4 a time to mourn (סְפֹד), and a time to skip about (gaily).
Pi`el dance, leap: Imperfect3masculine plural יְרַקְּדוּ Isa 13:21 (of שְׂעִירִים); יְרַקֵּר֑וּן Job 21:11 (of children; merrily), Joe 2:5(of locusts); Participle מְרַקֵּד 1Ch 15:29 (of David; = מְפַזֵּז מְכַרְכֵּר,, in || 2Sa 6:14, 2Sa 6:16); feminine singular מְרַקֵּדָה Nah 3:2 (of jolting chariots); in 2Sa 6:21 a insert אֲרַקֵּד I will dance, after ᵐ5 י, ׳לִפְנֵי Th We Dr Bu HPS (מְרַקֵּד).
Hiph`il Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיַּרְקִידֵם Psa 29:6 he (׳י) made them skip like calves (trees, by lightning).
רַקָּה see I. רקק. רַקּוֺן see II. רקק.
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
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