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# רָקַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7540

**skip about** — used 9 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

skip about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7540/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָקַד: vb. skip about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7540/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. skip about (NH Pi. Hiph. = BH; so Aramaic רְקַד Pa., ܪܩܰܕ Pa.; Assyrian raḳâdu, skip, dance; Arabic رَقَدَ ix. run with leaps and bounds, رَقَدَانٌ leaping up briskly);— skip about, Pf. 3 mpl. רָֽקְדוּ ψ 114:4 (of mts., כְּאֵילִים); Impf. 2 mpl. תִּרְקְדוּ v 6 (id.; both of Sinai quaking at law-giving); Inf. cstr. עֵת רְקוֹד Ec 3:4 a time to mourn (סְפֹד), and a time to skip about (gaily). dance, leap: Impf. 3 mpl. יְרַקְּדוּ Is 13:21 (of שְׂעִירִים); יְרַקֵּד֑וּן Jb 21:11 (of children; merrily), Jo 2:5 (of locusts); Pt. מְרַקֵּד 1 Ch 15:29 (of David; = מְכַרְכֵּר, מְפַזֵּז, in ‖ 2 S 6:14, 16); fs. מְרַקֵּדָה Na 3:2 (of jolting chariots); in 2 S 6:21a ins. אֲרַקֵּד I will dance, after לִפְנֵי י׳, 𝔊 Th We Dr Bu HPS (מְרַקֵּד). Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיַּרְקִידֵם ψ 29:6 he (י׳) made them skip like calves (trees, by lightning).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: they (2); he (1); jolting (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 114:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.4/#tree)

הֶֽ֭הָרִים רָקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* the mountains they.leaped.about like rams hills like young.ones of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

[Psalms 114:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.6/#tree)

הֶֽ֭הָרִים תִּרְקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* O mountains you.will.leap.about like rams O.hills like young.ones of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7540.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7540/): 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).