רָקַד
râqad · raw-kad'
properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dance, jump, leap, skip.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the doorway, the way in
The head, the highest of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָקַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- dancing1 · 11%
- dance1 · 11%
- he maketh them also to skip1 · 11%
- skipped1 · 11%
- that ye skipped1 · 11%
- to dance1 · 11%
- shall dance1 · 11%
- shall they leap1 · 11%
- and of the jumping1 · 11%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.