Lexical Definition

‎רָקַד‎ râqad (raw-kad') to skip about ^H:V
a primitive root

dance, jump, leap, skip.

• properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)

1) to skip about
1a) (Qal) to skip about
1b) (Piel) to dance, leap
1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip

See Greek: ἐξάλλομαι · ὀρχέομαι · σκιρτάω

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, Perfect 3 masculine plural ‎רָֽקְדוּ‎ Ps 114:4 (of mountains, ‎כְּאֵילִים‎); Imperfect 2 masculine plural ‎תִּרְקְדוּ‎ vPs 114:6 (id.; both of Sinai quaking at law-giving); Infinitive construct ‎עֵת רְקוֺד‎ Eccl 3:4 a time to mourn (‎סְפֹד‎), and a time to skip about (gaily). Pi`el dance, leap: Imperfect 3 masculine plural ‎יְרַקְּדוּ‎ Isa 13:21 (of ‎שְׂעִירִים‎); ‎יְרַקֵּר֑וּן‎ Job 21:11 (of children; merrily), Joel 2:5(of locusts); Participle ‎מְרַקֵּד‎ 1Chr 15:29 (of David; = ‎מְכַרְכֵּר‎, ‎מְפַזֵּז‎, in || 2Sam 6:14; 2Sam 6:16); feminine singular ‎מְרַקֵּדָה‎ Nah 3:2 (of jolting chariots); in 2Sam 6:21 a insert ‎אֲרַקֵּד‎ I will dance, after ‎׳‎‎לִפְנֵי י‎, ᵐ5 Th We Dr Bu HPS (‎מְרַקֵּד‎). Hiph`il Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix ‎וַיַּרְקִידֵם‎ Ps 29:6 he (‎׳‎‎י‎) made them skip like calves (trees, by lightning).

‎רַקָּה‎ see I. ‎רקק‎. ‎רַקּוֺן‎ see II. ‎רקק‎.

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