מָחוֹל
machol · dance
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4234 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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machol (מָחוֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dance”.
The round dance with which joy is celebrated.
How to say it
ma·chol
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
- Circle of people moving to music in joy.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- dancing ×4
- dance ×2
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 30:11
You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
- Psalms 149:3
Let them praise his name with dancing; with tambourine and lyre let them sing psalms to him.
- Psalms 150:4
Praise him with tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flute.
- Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you, and you will be built, virgin of Israel; again you will adorn yourself with your tambourines, and go out in the dance of those who make merry.
- Jeremiah 31:13
Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and I will comfort them and make them rejoice out of their sorrow.
- Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing has been turned into mourning.