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title: רָקַד — skip about · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָקַד (7540), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: skip about. BDB 1906: vb. skip about. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָקַד

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«רָקַד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **skip about** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 7540 · **BDB:** רָקַד

### Glosses

they (2); he (1); jolting (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

skip about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7540/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. skip about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7540/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. skip about (NH Pi. Hiph. = BH; so Aramaic רְקַד Pa., ܪܩܰܕ Pa.; Assyrian raḳâdu, skip, dance; Arabic رَقَدَ ix. run with leaps and bounds, رَقَدَانٌ leaping up briskly);— skip about, Pf. 3 mpl. רָֽקְדוּ ψ 114:4 (of mts., כְּאֵילִים); Impf. 2 mpl. תִּרְקְדוּ v 6 (id.; both of Sinai quaking at law-giving); Inf. cstr. עֵת רְקוֹד Ec 3:4 a time to mourn (סְפֹד), and a time to skip about (gaily). dance, leap: Impf. 3 mpl. יְרַקְּדוּ Is 13:21 (of שְׂעִירִים); יְרַקֵּד֑וּן Jb 21:11 (of children; merrily), Jo 2:5 (of locusts); Pt. מְרַקֵּד 1 Ch 15:29 (of David; = מְכַרְכֵּר, מְפַזֵּז, in ‖ 2 S 6:14, 16); fs. מְרַקֵּדָה Na 3:2 (of jolting chariots); in 2 S 6:21a ins. אֲרַקֵּד I will dance, after לִפְנֵי י׳, 𝔊 Th We Dr Bu HPS (מְרַקֵּד). Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיַּרְקִידֵם ψ 29:6 he (י׳) made them skip like calves (trees, by lightning).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָקַד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7540/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 114:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.4/)

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הֶֽ֭הָרִים רָקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* the mountains they.leaped.about like rams hills like young.ones of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.

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[Psalms 114:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.6/)

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הֶֽ֭הָרִים תִּרְקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* O mountains you.will.leap.about like rams O.hills like young.ones of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?

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