ὀρχέομαιorchéomai
to dance; Matthew 11:17, Matthew 14:6, Mark 6:22, Luke 7:32.
Greek (New Testament) · G3738
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 11:17 ‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t mourn.’
- Matthew 14:6 But at a birthday party for Herod, Herodias’s daughter performed a dance that greatly pleased him,
- Mark 6:22 Then his daughter, also named Herodias, came in and performed a dance that greatly pleased Herod and his guests. “Ask me for anything you like,” the king said to the girl, “and I will give it to you.”
- Luke 7:32 They are like children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends, ‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t weep.’
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.