Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4246
מְחֹלָה
mecholahmek-o-law'
dance
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉchôlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4246is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4246
a dance
The King James renders it: company, dances(-cing).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mecholah is rendered "dance". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Exodus 15:20וּבִמְחֹלֹֽת׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and with dancing2
- in the dances2
- and dancing1
- and the dancing1
- like dance of1
- with the dances1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְחֹלָתִי | Mecholathi | Meholathite | Uses2 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַמְּחֹלוֹת֙1
- בַּמְּחֹלוֹת֒1
- בַּמְּחֹל֖וֹת1
- וּבִמְחֹל֑וֹת1
- וּבִמְחֹלֹֽת׃1
- וְהַמְּחֹל֔וֹת1
- וּמְחֹלֹ֑ת1
- כִּמְחֹלַ֖ת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural3HRd/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural2HC/R/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Td/Ncfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
Exodus
two uses
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- וּבִמְחֹלֹֽת׃uvimcholotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and with dancing
As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
- וּמְחֹלֹ֑תumecholotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and dancing
Judges
two uses
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
- וּבִמְחֹל֑וֹתuvimcholotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and with dancing
and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
- בַּמְּחֹלוֹת֒bamecholotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the dances
1 Samuel
three uses
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
- וְהַמְּחֹל֔וֹתvehamecholotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the dancing
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
- בַמְּחֹלוֹת֙vamecholotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: with the dances
Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
- בַּמְּחֹל֖וֹתbamecholotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the dances
Song of Solomon
one use
Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?
- כִּמְחֹלַ֖תkimcholatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like dance of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.