Hebrew verb · H7540
רָקַד
raqadraw-kad'
to skip about
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râqad
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7540is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7540
properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
The King James renders it: dance, jump, leap, skip.
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
raqad is rendered "to skip about". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 15:29As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
1 Chronicles 15:29מְרַקֵּ֣ד
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he made skip them1
- dancing1
- jolting1
- they leap1
- they leap about1
- they skipped about1
- they will leap about1
- to dance1
- you will skip about1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥ם1
- יְרַקְּדוּ־1
- יְרַקֵּד֔וּן1
- יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃1
- מְרַקֵּ֣ד1
- מְרַקֵּדָֽה׃1
- רָקְד֣וּ1
- רְקֽוֹד׃1
- תִּרְקְד֣וּ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun2HVpi3mp/Sn
- Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular1HVprfsa
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HVqcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
1 Chronicles
one use
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
- מְרַקֵּ֣דmerakedverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: dancing
Job
one use
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃yerakedunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they leap about
Psalms
three uses
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
- וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥םvaiyarkidemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he made skip them
the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- רָקְד֣וּrakeduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they skipped about
O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
- תִּרְקְד֣וּtirkeduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will skip about
Ecclesiastes
one use
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
- רְקֽוֹד׃rekodverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to dance
Isaiah
one use
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- יְרַקְּדוּ־yerakedu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will leap about
Joel
one use
With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
- יְרַקֵּד֔וּןyerakedunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they leap
Nahum
one use
The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
- מְרַקֵּדָֽה׃merakedahverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: jolting
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.