Lexicon raqad: to skip about Original Word: רָקַדPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: raqad Phonetic Spelling: (raw-kad') Short Definition: skip NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto skip about NASB Translationbounding (1), dance (1), frolic (1), leap (1), leaping (1), skip (2), skip about (1), skipped (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs 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 Psalm 114:6 (id.; both of Sinai quaking at law-giving); Infinitive construct עֵת רְקוֺד 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; = מְכַרְכֵּר, מְפַזֵּז, 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 ׳לִפְנֵי י, ᵐ5 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.
Strong's dance, jump, leap, skip A primitive root; properly, to stamp, i.e. To spring about (wildly or for joy) -- dance, jump, leap, skip. |
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