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# מָחוֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4234

**dance** — used 6 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

dance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4234/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָחוֹל: n.m. dance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4234/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. La 5:15 dance;—abs. מ׳ ψ 30:12 + 3 times; cstr. מְחוֹל Je 31:4; מְחוֹלֵנוּ La 5:15;—dance, token of joyousness ψ 30:12 (opp. מספד), Je 31:4, 13 (cf. v b), La 5:15 (opp. אֵבֶל); act of praise to י׳ ψ 149:3; 150:4; accompanied by timbrel (תֹּף) and sometimes other instruments ψ 149:3, 4 Je 31:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dancing (6).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 5:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.15/#tree)

שָׁבַת֙ מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ לִבֵּ֔נוּ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְאֵ֖בֶל מְחֹלֵֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.has.ceased the.joy our.heart our it.has.been.changed into mourning dancing our

*JPS 1917:* The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

[Psalms 149:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.3/#tree)

יְהַֽלְל֣וּ שְׁמ֣וֹ בְמָח֑וֹל בְּתֹ֥ף וְ֝כִנּ֗וֹר יְזַמְּרוּ־לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* let.them.praise name his with dancing with tambourine and harp let.them.make.music to him

*JPS 1917:* Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4234.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4234/): 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).