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# כָּרַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3769

**dancing** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dancing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3769/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּרַר: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3769/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. √ of foll. (NH כִּרְכֵּר use circumlocution; 𝔗 pl. כִּרְכְּרָן dances; Arabic كَرَّ return, repeat, attack anew, advance and retreat; كَرْكَرَ id.; ii. whirl about; orig. perhaps move around, then surround, enclose, recur, etc.; Ethiopic ከርከረ: turn a mill, only pt.; ኰርኰረ: v. rotate, revolve, roll, and deriv. Di 838 f.);—only , Pt. מְכַרְכֵּר dancing (lit. whirling) 2 S 6:14, 16 (‖ מְפַזֵּז).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] dancing (1); dancing (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 6:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.14/#tree)

וְדָוִ֛ד מְכַרְכֵּ֥ר בְּכָל־עֹ֖ז לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְדָוִ֕ד חָג֖וּר אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and David \[was\].dancing with all strength before Yahweh and David \[was\].girded an.ephod of.linen

*JPS 1917:* And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

[2 Samuel 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.16/#tree)

וְהָיָה֙ אֲר֣וֹן יְהוָ֔ה בָּ֖א עִ֣יר דָּוִ֑ד וּמִיכַ֨ל בַּת־שָׁא֜וּל נִשְׁקְפָ֣ה ׀ בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֗וֹן וַתֵּ֨רֶא אֶת־הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִד֙ מְפַזֵּ֤ז וּמְכַרְכֵּר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וַתִּ֥בֶז ל֖וֹ בְּלִבָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.ark of.Yahweh coming the.city of.David and Michal the.daughter of.Saul she.looked.down through the window and she.saw (et) the king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh and she.despised (to) him in heart her

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3769.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3769/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).