{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7540",
  "lemma": "רָקַד",
  "transliteration": "râqad",
  "definition": "properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)",
  "kjv": "dance, jump, leap, skip.",
  "occurrences": 9,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "רָקַד vb. skip about",
    "Qal skip about",
    "Pi. dance, leap",
    "Hiph. he (י׳) made them skip like calves"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 13:21",
      "text": "But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joel 2:5",
      "text": "Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Nahum 3:2",
      "text": "The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/3?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 29:6",
      "text": "He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/29?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 114:4",
      "text": "The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/114?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 114:6",
      "text": "You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/114?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 21:11",
      "text": "They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/21?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 3:4",
      "text": "a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/3?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Chronicles 15:29",
      "text": "As the ark of the LORD’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/15?v=29"
    }
  ],
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