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title: כָּרַר — dancing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּרַר (3769), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: dancing. BDB 1906: vb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּרַר

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«כָּרַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dancing** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3769 · **BDB:** כָּרַר

### Glosses

\[was\].dancing (1); dancing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dancing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3769/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3769/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. √ of foll. (NH כִּרְכֵּר use circumlocution; 𝔗 pl. כִּרְכְּרָן dances; Arabic كَرَّ return, repeat, attack anew, advance and retreat; كَرْكَرَ id.; ii. whirl about; orig. perhaps move around, then surround, enclose, recur, etc.; Ethiopic ከርከረ: turn a mill, only pt.; ኰርኰረ: v. rotate, revolve, roll, and deriv. Di 838 f.);—only , Pt. מְכַרְכֵּר dancing (lit. whirling) 2 S 6:14, 16 (‖ מְפַזֵּז).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּרַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3769/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 6:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.14/)

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וְדָוִ֛ד מְכַרְכֵּ֥ר בְּכָל־עֹ֖ז לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְדָוִ֕ד חָג֖וּר אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and David \[was\].dancing with all strength before Yahweh and David \[was\].girded an.ephod of.linen

*JPS 1917:* And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

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[2 Samuel 6:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.16/)

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וְהָיָה֙ אֲר֣וֹן יְהוָ֔ה בָּ֖א עִ֣יר דָּוִ֑ד וּמִיכַ֨ל בַּת־שָׁא֜וּל נִשְׁקְפָ֣ה ׀ בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֗וֹן וַתֵּ֨רֶא אֶת־הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִד֙ מְפַזֵּ֤ז וּמְכַרְכֵּר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וַתִּ֥בֶז ל֖וֹ בְּלִבָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.ark of.Yahweh coming the.city of.David and Michal the.daughter of.Saul she.looked.down through the window and she.saw (et) the king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh and she.despised (to) him in heart her

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

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