רָקַדrâqad
skip about
Pronunciation: raw-kad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7540
Meanings
Qal: skip about (Psalms 114:4; Psalms 114:6; Ecclesiastes 3:4)
Pi`el: dance, leap (Isaiah 13:21; Job 21:11; Joel 2:5)
Hiph`il: made, skip (Psalms 29:6)
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 15:29 But as the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David skipping about and laughing with joy, she was filled with contempt for him.
- Job 21:11 They let their children frisk about like lambs. Their little ones skip and dance.
- Psalms 29:6 He makes Lebanon’s mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox.
- Psalms 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs!
- Psalms 114:6 Why, mountains, did you skip like rams? Why, hills, like lambs?
- Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).