רָקַד râqad

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: dance, jump, leap, skip.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• 1 Chronicles 15:29 As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
• Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
• Psalms 29:6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
• Psalms 114:4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
• Psalms 114:6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
• Ecclesiastes 3:4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
• Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
• Joel 2:5 With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
• Nahum 3:2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!