# H7540 רָקַד

רָקַד (râqad), Strong’s H7540: properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy) KJV: dance, jump, leap, skip.. Occurs 9 times.

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*râqad* — properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)

KJV: dance, jump, leap, skip.

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רָקַד vb. skip about
- Qal skip about
- Pi. dance, leap
- Hiph. he (י׳) made them skip like calves

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 13:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=21) — But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there…
- [Joel 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=5) — Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the…
- [Nahum 3:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/3?v=2) — The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
- [Psalms 29:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/29?v=6) — He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
- [Psalms 114:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/114?v=4) — The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
- [Psalms 114:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/114?v=6) — You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?
- [Job 21:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/21?v=11) — They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
- [Ecclesiastes 3:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/3?v=4) — a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- [1 Chronicles 15:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/15?v=29) — 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…