rakad · dance, leap

What it means

rakad (רָקַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dance, leap”.

To leap: to jump, to skip, often for joy.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To spring up with joy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dance ×3
• He makes them skip ×1
• bounding ×1
• leaping ×1
• skipped ×1
• they leap ×1
• you skip ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Joel×1
• Nahum×1

• 1 Chronicles 15:29

  And it happened that as the ark of the covenant of YHWH was coming to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.

• Job 21:11

  They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

• Psalms 29:6

  He makes them skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

• Psalms 114:4

  The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

• Psalms 114:6

  mountains, that you skip like rams, 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

  And desert creatures will lie down there, and their houses will be filled with owls; and ostriches will dwell there, and male goats will dance there.

• Joel 2:5

  Like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains they leap, like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, like a mighty people arrayed for battle.

• Nahum 3:2

  The sound of the whip, and the sound of the rumble of the wheel, and galloping horse, and bounding chariot;