King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7540
Transliteration: raqad
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-kad')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to skip about
Meaning: to stamp, to spring about
Word Summary
raqad: to skip about
Original Word: רָקַדTransliteration: raqad
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-kad')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to skip about
Meaning: to stamp, to spring about
Strong's Concordance
dance, jump, leap, skip A primitive root; properly, to stamp, i.e. To spring about (wildly or for joy) -- dance, jump, leap, skip.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7540. raqad
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 Psalm 114:4 (of mountains, כְּאֵילִים); Imperfect2masculine plural תִּרְקְדוּ 114:6 (id.; both of Sinai quaking at law-giving); Infinitive construct רְקוֺד עֵת Ecclesiastes 3:4 a time to mourn (סְפֹד), and a time to skip about (gaily).
Pi`el dance, leap: Imperfect3masculine plural יְרַקְּדוּ Isaiah 13:21 (of שְׂעִירִים); יְרַקֵּר֑וּן Job 21:11 (of children; merrily), Joel 2:5(of locusts); Participle מְרַקֵּד 1 Chronicles 15:29 (of David; = מְפַזֵּז מְכַרְכֵּר,, in "" 2 Samuel 6:14, 16); feminine singular מְרַקֵּדָה Nahum 3:2 (of jolting chariots); in 2 Samuel 6:21 a insert אֲרַקֵּד I will dance, after ᵐ5 י, ׳לִפְנֵי Th We Dr Bu HPS (מְרַקֵּד).
Hiph`il Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיַּרְקִידֵם Psalm 29:6 he (׳י) made them skip like calves (trees, by lightning).
רַקָּה see I. רקק. רַקּוֺן see II. רקק.